brambles

Noun

bramble (plural brambles)

1. 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
2. Any thorny shrub.
3. A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
4. (Scotland) The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

   Synonyms:

   blackberry, brambleberry

5. A collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.

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