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# bramble

«bramble» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild thorny bush with long arching stems, especially…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bramble, brambles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bramble is a wild thorny bush with long arching stems, especially the blackberry bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#m1)

2) Brambles are a thick tangle of such prickly bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#m2)

3) In Scotland and parts of the UK, a bramble also means the blackberry fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons brambles grow in hedges, woods and wasteland; their flowers feed bees and their berries feed birds, and their thorny tangles give small animals a safe hiding place. In stories, brambles block paths and scratch heroes (the thorny hedge around Sleeping Beauty's castle). Phrases: «a bramble bush», «caught in the brambles», «bramble jelly».

### examples

- My jumper got caught on a bramble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#x1)
- Brambles grew all over the old garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#x2)
- We picked berries from the brambles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#x3)
- The rabbit hid in the brambles from the fox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#x4)
- Wear long trousers, or the brambles will scratch your legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#x5)
- Bees buzzed around the bramble flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#x6)
- In Scotland, «brambles» can mean blackberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#x7)
- The path was blocked by thick brambles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/#x8)

### note

Countable: a bramble, brambles. Related: blackberry (the fruit). Thorns can cause scratches that get infected — wash them.

### In the corpora

- [Move carefully past roses and brambles, and pull out thorns with a grown-up's help.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/19/)
- [Move carefully near thorny bushes such as roses and brambles, and get a grown-up's help to pull out a thorn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/15/)
- [Then said all the trees unto the bramble: Come thou, and reign over us.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.274/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bramble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bramble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.