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bramble

UK/ˈbɹæm.bəl/US/ˈbɹæm.bəl/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: brambles

A bramble is a thorny tangle that gives blackberries. Cut back the brambles.

It roots wherever a stem touches the ground, which is how it takes a whole field. A bramble hedge is the best cover for nesting birds there is.

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Definitions of bramble

  1. 1nounbrambleA thorny tangle that gives blackberries.C1

    “The bramble had taken the whole of the back garden in four years.”

bramble is a plant.

Where it comes from

Old English brembel is a diminutive of a word for broom, the shrub.

  1. Proto-West Germanic

    *brāmil

  2. Old English

    bræmbel

  3. Middle English

    brembel

  4. English, today

    bramble

From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic brāmil, diminutive of brām (English broom).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Trees & Flowers

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bramble in the wild

  • Rubus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, most commonly known as brambles.

    Rubus

  • The Rubus fruit, sometimes called a bramble fruit, is an aggregate of drupelets.

    Rubus

  • The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

    Brambling

  • The bramble shark (Echinorhinus brucus) is one of the two species of sharks in the family Echinorhinidae.

    Bramble shark

  • The bramble shark has a stout body with two small dorsal fins positioned far back and no anal fin.

    Bramble shark

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.