bramble

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
    — The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
  2. Any thorny shrub.
  3. A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
  4. The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets. Scotland
  5. A collection of mutually touching connected subgraphs, where two subgraphs touch if they share a vertex or each includes one endpoint of an edge.
动词 v.
  1. To pick or collect blackberries from brambles.

词形变化

brambles plural brambles present,singular,third-person brambling participle,present brambled participle,past brambled past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *brāmil, diminutive of *brām (English broom).
词源 2
From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *brāmil, diminutive of *brām (English broom).
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