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

• stone: Where grazing has been limited the number of species is higher, with reed canary-grass and stone bramble.

• clearing: Pegasus can be used for breaking up the soil or clearing brambles and nettles.