bramble C2 Topic:Plants & Agriculture US /ˈbɹæm.bəl/ See IPA manual Freq #50458 Meanings 1 noun a rough, thorny shrub or vine, especially a blackberry bush A bramble grew across the narrow path. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a rough, thorny shrub or... thorny shrubbriar More blackberry bush Word family Forms brambles Derived forms bramblesbrambly Related forms briarthornbush Common collocations bramble bush Noun + noun Etymology From Middle English brembel, from Old English braembel, a word for a thorny shrub. brembel Middle English bræmbel Old English *brāmil Proto-West Germanic View etymology graph -> Topics Plants & Agriculture External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # bramble **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈbɹæm.bəl/ **Frequency rank:** 50458 ## Meanings 1. a rough, thorny shrub or vine, especially a blackberry bush ## Examples - A bramble grew across the narrow path. ## Synonyms - thorny shrub - briar - blackberry bush ## Derived Forms - brambles - brambly ## Related Forms - briar - thorn - bush ## Roots and Affixes - Root: brembel - Root: bræmbel - Root: *brāmil ## Etymology From Middle English brembel, from Old English braembel, a word for a thorny shrub. ## Topics - Plants & Agriculture markdown