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Noun: bramble  bram-bul
  1. Any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
    "Blackberry brambles grew wild along the country lane"
     
  2. 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
Verb: bramble  bram-bul
Usage: Brit
  1. 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