Definition of "bramble" [bram•ble]

• A prickly shrub of the genus Rubus, including the blackberry and the raspberry. (noun)
• A prickly shrub or bush. (noun)

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• "The lighthouse island was stencilled in bramble-black on a gold-leaf sea."
• "He resumes his work as a shepherd and avoids contact with anything that might be called bramble, hedge, or scrub."
• "Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world."