bramble
bramble
Definition
bram·ble (bram′bəl)
noun
- any of a genus (Rubus) of generally prickly shrubs of the rose family, as the raspberry, blackberry, or dewberry
- any prickly shrub or vine
Etymology: ME brembel < OE bræmel < brom, broom
bram′·bly adjective
bramble
Synonyms
bramble
n.
bramble
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- overgrow: I t was also reported that overgrown brambles and hedges were also a problem on the roadside.
- cut: Meet Howard at the motorway bridge where he is cutting back brambles.
- clear: Work involves helping with the animals, hedging, fencing, clearing brambles & bracken.
- remove: Can you recommend the best way to remove brambles which are growing in with a box privet hedge please?
- include: Cetti's Warbler: Likely to be encountered anywhere on the reserve including brambles away from the water.
- eat: Newly hatched stick insects eat bramble leaves just like the adults.
Adjective modifier
- thick: The Danes then left the area, flinging Edmund's head into thick brambles nearby.
- back: Meet Howard at the motorway bridge where he is cutting back brambles.
- wild: Last night I picked a whole box of blackberries from the wild brambles that grow over the hedge.
- clear: Clear bramble, make bonfire, plant hedging plants.
- dead: Links to photographs of your efforts are also very welcome, even piccies of dead brambles.
- ubiquitous: The ubiquitous brambles have spread thickly along the top.
Modifies a noun
- thicket: Found in a wide variety of habitats, including gardens, particularly in bramble thickets.
- bush: For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
- jelly: There's bramble jelly to be made and bramble and apple crumble to put in the freezer.
- patch: Over the years a dense bramble patch has developed at the south-facing bank of the hollow, nearest the rock face.
- fruit: On the palate flavors of black and bramble fruits are balanced by soft tannins and an earthy note with a hint of oak.
- flower: A specimen was recently swept from bramble flowers at the margin of old woodland.
Noun used with modifier
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