BRAMBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bramble mean? 

• BRAMBLE (noun)
  The noun BRAMBLE has 1 sense:

1. any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines

  Familiarity information: BRAMBLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAMBLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bramble" is a kind of...):

ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bramble"):

bramble bush (any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits)

Derivation:

brambly (covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth)

 Context examples 

As she spoke, she sprang herself into the shallow stream and ran swiftly up the centre of it, with the brown water bubbling over her feet and her hand out-stretched toward the clinging branches of bramble or sapling.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)