bramble

Plural: brambles

Noun

• any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
• Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
• Any thorny shrub.
• A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
• The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
• A collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.

Verb

Verb Forms: brambled, brambling, brambles

• To gather berries, typically from thorny bushes.
• To pick or collect blackberries from brambles.

Examples

• I tried to BRAMBLE for more points, but all the high-value tiles were hidden in the bag.

Synonyms

blackberry, brambleberry

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