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blackberry bush

Definitions

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  • noun bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle

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Examples

  • My sword rose and fell amidst a swarm of blackberry bush, stinkweed and maniacal thicket following a trail left by Lotus-eaters who had stopped to rest in that hobo Eden;

    Lotus-eaters Swanson Tudor 2011

  • I've got plenty of mulberry trees to sustain me on my walk, and I have a wild cherry tree that leaves me looking like a vampire every time I pass it, but until yesterday I missed the blackberry bush.

    Archive 2009-06-01 doyle 2009

  • I used to love showing off my scars–the one on my eyelid from the blackberry bush I rode through on my minibike, the dog bite I got from an attempted band candy sale, stretch marks need I say more?

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Failure 2009

  • When I stepped on a wasp nest at age 8, I believed for a thrilling few moments that I had wandered into an invisible blackberry bush and my adventures in fantasyland were about to begin.

    I Want YOU (to leave a comment on this entry specifically, because I am ever the curious one) 2009

  • I've got plenty of mulberry trees to sustain me on my walk, and I have a wild cherry tree that leaves me looking like a vampire every time I pass it, but until yesterday I missed the blackberry bush.

    June berries doyle 2009

  • I pushed back the bench and ran for the door, reaching it just in time to throw up into the blackberry bush, retching coffee, bile, and fried egg.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • Here is James experimenting on a big blackberry bush.

    James MacGyver 2005

  • He is looking in his special backpack for something he can use to do something to the blackberry bush.

    James MacGyver 2005

  • Then there was a little greenfinch, just fledged, fluttering along the ground, and it seemed quite possible to catch it, till it managed to flutter under the blackberry bush.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • The sea a misty backdrop behind soft-rustling pines and coils of blackberry bush.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

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