bramble

Noun

1. Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
2. Any thorny shrub.
3. A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
4. (Scotland) The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
5. A collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.

Verb

To pick or collect blackberries from brambles.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɹæm.bəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: brembel

Inherited from Old English: bræmbel

Cognate with English: broom

In summary

From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *brāmil, diminutive of *brām (English broom).

Synonyms

blackberry

blackberry bush

thicket

briar

dewberry

blackberries

shrub

shrubbery

thistle

thorns

wild rose

European blackberry

bush-lawyer

brake

bush

grove

hedge

nettle

Translations

ronce

zarza

Brombeere

rovo

rubus

βάτος

zarzamora

jeżyna

esbarzer

böğürtlen

braam

braamstruik

amoreira

Brombeerstrauch

mûre