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 →

2) Brambles are a thick tangle of such prickly bushes. tree →

3) In Scotland and parts of the UK, a bramble also means the blackberry fruit. tree →

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 →
• Brambles grew all over the old garden. tree →
• We picked berries from the brambles. tree →
• The rabbit hid in the brambles from the fox. tree →
• Wear long trousers, or the brambles will scratch your legs. tree →
• Bees buzzed around the bramble flowers. tree →
• In Scotland, «brambles» can mean blackberries. tree →
• The path was blocked by thick brambles. tree →

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.
• Move carefully near thorny bushes such as roses and brambles, and get a grown-up's help to pull out a thorn.
• Then said all the trees unto the bramble: Come thou, and reign over us.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bramble» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.