bramble

Meaning

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.

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

esbarzer

böğürtlen

braam

braamstruik

amoreira

Brombeerstrauch

mûre

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).