Noun: bramble bram-bul
Usage: Brit
- Any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
"Blackberry brambles grew wild along the country lane"
- Large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
"They picked wild brambles along the country lane";
- blackberry
Usage: Brit
- Pick or gather blackberries
"The children went brambling";
- blackberry
Derived forms: brambles, brambled, brambling
Type of: berry, drupelet, ligneous plant, woody plant
Part of: Rubus fruticosus, Rubus ursinus, true blackberry, western blackberry, western dewberry
Encyclopedia: Bramble, Matthew