bramble bush

/ˌbræmbəl bʊʃ/

Other forms: bramble bushes

Definitions of bramble bush

1. noun

   any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits
   types:

   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

   Rubus fruticosus, true blackberry

   the true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries

   Rubus cuneifolius, sand blackberry

   stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida)

   dewberry, dewberry bush, running blackberry

   any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America

   Rubus ursinus, western blackberry, western dewberry

   American blackberry with oblong black fruit

   red raspberry

   any of several raspberries bearing red fruit

   Rubus occidentalis, black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, thimbleberry

   raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit

   Rubus spectabilis, salmonberry

   large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries

   Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry, thimbleberry

   white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries

   Rubus chamaemorus, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, salmonberry

   creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries

   Rubus odoratus, flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, thimbleberry

   shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit

   Rubus phoenicolasius, wineberry

   raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits

   type of:

   bramble

   any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines