bramble
/ˈbɹæm.bəl/
bramble noun: any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
Noun
bramble (plural brambles)
- Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
- The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
- At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408
- Any thorny shrub.
- A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
- The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
- Synonyms:
- blackberry, brambleberry
- A collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.
Verb
bramble (third-person singular simple present brambles, present participle brambling, simple past and past participle brambled)
- To pick or collect blackberries from brambles.
Proper noun capitalized: Bramble
Bramble (plural Brambles)
- A surname.
bramble meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam
bramble in Tamil
- முட்செடி
bramble in Marathi
- any thorny shrub
- काटेरी झुडूप kāṭerī jhuḍūp
bramble in Telugu
- bramble
- కంప kampa, క్రంప krampa
- bramble, bushes
- డొంక ḍoṅka
bramble in Malayalam
- മുൾച്ചെടി
More languagesFewer languages
- bramble in Kannada
- ಮುಳ್ಳುಗಿಡ
Examples of bramble in a sentence
- When she returned I was suspiciously near the brambles. ‘You have been eating blackberries’, she said. ‘I have not’, I replied. ‘Put out your tongue!’ she said.1975, Bertrand Russell, chapter 1, in Autobiography:
- In exploring batology you’ll find that the most commonly cultivated brambles come from a complex lineage…2012 July 19, “Rubus Diversity and Obscurity…Batology!”, in The Fruit Nut, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2020:
Synonyms of bramble
Forms of bramble
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brambles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | brambles |
| present participle | brambling |
| past participle | brambled |
| past | brambled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Brambles |
Origin of bramble
From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *brāmil, diminutive of *brām (English broom).
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Phrases with bramble
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Questions about bramble
- What does bramble mean?
- Bramble means any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
- What is bramble in Tamil?
- Bramble in Tamil is முட்செடி. See Bramble meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use bramble in a sentence?
- When she returned I was suspiciously near the brambles. ‘You have been eating blackberries’, she said. ‘I have not’, I replied. ‘Put out your tongue!’ she said.
- What part of speech is bramble?
- Bramble can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bramble?
- Bramble is pronounced /ˈbɹæm.bəl/.
- What is the plural of bramble?
- The plural of bramble is brambles.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bramble (page history and authors); Bramble (page history and authors); bramble (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కంప (Telugu) (page history and authors); bramble (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bramble (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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