Meaning

5 senses
  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.

    any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines

  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.

Examples

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  1. Tom fell into the brambles.

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  2. He hid behind a bramble bush.

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  3. Mary tore her skirt on the brambles.

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  4. Thorny as they are, brambles give blackberries.

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  5. Although the brambles are thorny but they produce blackberries.

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from d

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

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