1
: any of a genus (Rubus) of usually prickly shrubs of the rose family including the raspberries and blackberries
also
: the fruit of a bramble
2
: a rough prickly shrub or vine
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Its color is medium purple with flavors of brown sugar, bramble, dark cherry, licorice, and sandalwood.
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Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
Others, like Patti and Mark Anderson, had bought sets of bunkers with the intent of cutting away the brambles and, as Mark explained to me, putting the ingenuity of the German architecture on display.
—Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
Slightly oaky and hefty aromas that include bramble and blackberries, some cocoa as well as dusty earth and pine.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
Developers hope to convert the bramble and creek of 12650 Willow Springs Road into a 299-unit housing development.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
A couple of months ago, workers in high-vis jackets arrived, tore down the brambles, leveled the muddy path, and replaced it with a tarmac dual-use path for pedestrians and cyclists.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
The bunny tracks running up from the bramble to the
catalpa.
—Rachel Coye, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2023
The narrow footway was a good place to spot herons and it was surrounded with brambles so thick that two people could barely walk side-by-side.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
Two days later, the police found three more — four skeletons in all, secured with burlap and positioned just a tenth of a mile away from one another, in the bramble off the side of a deserted stretch of seaside highway.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
Others, like Patti and Mark Anderson, had bought sets of bunkers with the intent of cutting away the brambles and, as Mark explained to me, putting the ingenuity of the German architecture on display.
—Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
Slightly oaky and hefty aromas that include bramble and blackberries, some cocoa as well as dusty earth and pine.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
Developers hope to convert the bramble and creek of 12650 Willow Springs Road into a 299-unit housing development.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
A couple of months ago, workers in high-vis jackets arrived, tore down the brambles, leveled the muddy path, and replaced it with a tarmac dual-use path for pedestrians and cyclists.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
The bunny tracks running up from the bramble to the
catalpa.
—Rachel Coye, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2023
The narrow footway was a good place to spot herons and it was surrounded with brambles so thick that two people could barely walk side-by-side.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
Two days later, the police found three more — four skeletons in all, secured with burlap and positioned just a tenth of a mile away from one another, in the bramble off the side of a deserted stretch of seaside highway.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
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“Bramble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bramble. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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