any of various prickly herbaceous plants or shrubs of the rosaceous genus Rubus, esp the blackberry a blackberry any of several similar and related shrubs
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bram•ble /ˈbræmbəl/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Plant Biologya prickly shrub of the rose family.
- Plant Biologyany rough, prickly shrub.
bram•ble
(bram′bəl),USA pronunciation n., v., -bled, -bling.
n.
v.i.
n.
- Plant Biologyany prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- British Termsthe common blackberry.
- Plant Biologyany rough, prickly shrub, as the dog rose.
v.i.
- British Termsto look for and gather wild blackberries;
pick blackberries from the vine.
- bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English bræmbel, variant of brǣmel, equivalent. to brǣm- (cognate with Dutch braam broom) + -el noun, nominal suffix
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'bramble' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
-le
- blackberry
- boysenberry
- brambly
- brier
- broom
- dewberry
- hip
- raspberry
- sarsaparilla