bramble

/ˈbræmbəl/

/ˈbrambəl/

Other forms: brambles; brambling

A bramble is a bush or plant that's covered in thorns. You'll want to wear long pants if you're going to trek through the brambles looking for your lost cat.

Those rough, prickly shrubs that grow along the fence and in which you're always losing your Frisbee? You can call them brambles. This word is most common in Britain, where it sometimes refers specifically to blackberry bushes. In fact, some Britons even call blackberries themselves "brambleberries." The Old English root is bræmbel.

Definitions of bramble

1. noun

   any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
   types:

   bramble bush

   any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits

   Rubus australis, Rubus cissoides, bush lawyer, lawyer bush, lawyerbush

   stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth

   Rubus saxatilis, stone bramble

   European trailing bramble with red berrylike fruits

   blackberry, blackberry bush

   bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle

   raspberry, raspberry bush

   woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries

   type of:

   ligneous plant, woody plant

   a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems