Meaning of Bramble | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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.”

“At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have⟳ already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.”

“Jeanette is making bramble jelly. She is trying to listen⟳ to the Morning Story on Radio 4 while she goes about her task. Jeanette's brow is furrowed as she weighs the deep purple fruit and tips the berries into the heavy jelly pan […]”

“A similar instinct for self-preservation was the cause of my first lie⟳. My governess left me alone for half an hour with strict instructions to eat⟳ no blackberries during her absence. When she returned I was suspiciously near the brambles. ‘You have⟳ been eating blackberries’, she said. ‘I have⟳ not’, I replied. ‘Put⟳ out your tongue!’ she said. Shame overwhelmed me, and I felt utterly wicked.”

“There seems to be a term for just about everything… it turns out there’s even a term for the scientific study⟳ of members of the Rubus genus— batology. No, not the study⟳ of bats. In exploring batology you’ll find⟳ that the most commonly cultivated brambles come⟳ from a complex lineage…”

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