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Bramble vs Blackberry - What's the difference?

bramble | blackberry |

Blackberry is a synonym of bramble.



As nouns the difference between bramble and blackberry

is that bramble is common blackberry while blackberry is a fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

As a verb blackberry is

to gather or forage for blackberries.

As a proper noun BlackBerry is

a smartphone brand. The brand name of a wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, by BlackBerry Limited or by extension similar apparatus made by competitors.

bramble

English

(wikipedia bramble)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) Common blackberry.
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    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=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.}}
  • (label) Any of several closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus , including blackberry and raspberry.
  • Any thorny shrub.
  • A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.

    • Derived terms

    * stone bramble * brambled * brambling

    blackberry

    English

    (wikipedia blackberry) (Rubus fruticosus)

    Noun

    (blackberries)
  • A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
  • The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
  • (UK, in some regions) The blackcurrant.

    • Synonyms

    * (shrub and fruit) bramble

    Derived terms

    * blackberrying

    Verb

  • To gather or forage for .
  • * 1925 , Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway :
    • She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
  • * 1977 , Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances , Mariner Books (2006), ISBN 9780618694068, page 111:
    • My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
  • * 2001 , Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ISBN 9780156007337, page 72:
    • My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
  • * 2004 , Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland , Gothic Image (2004), ISBN 9780906362648, page 48:
    • Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire ): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.
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