English Explanatory Dictionary

bramble

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
  2. Any thorny shrub.
  3. A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
  4. The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
  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.
verb
  1. To pick or collect blackberries from brambles.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɹæm.bəl/ [ˈbɹɛəm.bəl] [ˈbɹɛəm.bl̩] en-us-bramble.ogg

Word forms

bramble brambles brambling brambled

Etymology

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

Synonyms

blackberry brambleberry

Derived words

bramblebush brambled bramble net bramble shark brambling brambly mountain bramble roseleaf bramble stone bramble
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