Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A prickly shrub of the genus Rubus of the rose family, including the blackberry and the raspberry.
- noun A prickly shrub or bush.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name common to plants of the genus Rubus, especially and usually in England the common blackberry, R. fruticosus; occasionally (from these plants being armed with prickles), any rough prickly shrub, as the dogrose, Rosa canina.
- To pick brambles or blackberries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
- noun (Zoöl.) The brambling or bramble finch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK Common
blackberry . - noun US Any of several closely related thorny plants in the genus
Rubus , includingblackberry andraspberry . - noun Any
thorny shrub . - noun A
cocktail ofgin ,lemon juice , andblackberry liqueur .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The lighthouse island was stencilled in bramble-black on a gold-leaf sea.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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He resumes his work as a shepherd and avoids contact with anything that might be called bramble, hedge, or scrub.
Archive 2009-07-12 2009
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He resumes his work as a shepherd and avoids contact with anything that might be called bramble, hedge, or scrub.
Here we are? 2009
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Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world.
Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
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His parable of the reign of the bramble is the earliest example of the kind.
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Here in my present picnic is the suggestive parallel, for even though no such actual episodes as those I have described had been witnessed by me, an examination of the premises beneath my bramble were a sufficient commentary.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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As amongst all the trees and plants of the earth the bramble is the most troublesome, so it is also the most contemptible.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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The bramble is a worthless plant, not to be numbered among the trees, useless and fruitless, nay, hurtful and vexatious, scratching and tearing, and doing mischief; it began with the curse, and its end is to be burned.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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In case it is not, then the "bramble" will have to be regarded as the type of hedge that perhaps enclosed the threshing floor.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Plath citations: see note at lapwing.
April 14, 2008