(n.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
(n.) The brambling or bramble finch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(2) Visit on Friday or Saturday night and you'll find some of Edinburgh's beautiful people occupying Bramble's many cubbyholes.
(3) Open Mon–Sat 5pm–1am; Sun 5pm–midnight Bramble Bramble, Edinburgh You could easily miss Bramble from the street.
(4) Clam enterocystoplasty has proved to be the most effective treatment for severe detrusor instability resistant to conservative treatment (Bramble, 1982; Mundy and Stephenson, 1985).
(5) By all means, adapt it to your taste: I've swapped the usual raspberry jam for a sharper blackcurrant, but cherry or bramble jam, or even marmalade might work nicely, too.
(6) In Chapter 1, for example, Pip recalls watching Magwitch pick his way through the graveyard brambles, "as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in".
(7) Small birds rose up in clouds from the pond’s edge: chaffinches, bramblings, a flock of long-tailed tits that caught in willow branches like animated cotton buds.
(8) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
(9) A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.
(10) Titus Bramble is training with West Ham as he looks for a new club.
(11) There were brambles along the hedgerow with shrivelled stalks, and berryless hawthorns.
(12) The present work is concerned with the aroma of hybrids between raspberry (Rubus idaeus, L.) and arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus, L.).
(13) There is going to be great competition and I’m really looking forward to it.” Elsewhere, another British gold medal winner on 2012’s Super Saturday, and also the European and Commonwealth champion, Greg Rutherford, hopes to recapture his best long jump form against a field that includes Marquis Dendy, who jumped a wind-assisted 8.68m this year, plus the improving Briton Dan Bramble.
(14) I had to press myself into brambles on a single-track road to avoid lorries destined for a municipal tip.
(15) "It's a milestone, and hopefully there are more to come," says Charles Eddy, a board member of Friends of the LA River, and part of this expedition, as he navigates his kayak through brambles.
(16) Photograph: Queensland Government The Bramble Cay melomys – a small rodent that lives on a tiny island in the eastern Torres Strait, and the only mammal endemic to the Great Barrier Reef – has the dubious honour of being the first mammal to be made extinct primarily due to human-induced climate change.
(17) The view from Fun City The morning after the rally, it has become clear that Iowa may be the bramble in Trump’s path.
(18) Ramsons and Bramble Ramson and Bramble, created by a vegetarian chef, is a step closer to indulgence than some veggie blogs, but all the better for it.
(19) The contents of the corresponding compounds in arctic bramble and in raspberry are also given.
(20) Finally, I was confronted by impenetrable dereliction: great mounds of brambles and nettles.
Cloudberry
Definition:
(n.) A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamaemerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aroma of cloudberries is characterised by the presence of aromatic compounds, which constitute about 53% of the essential oil.
(2) Try surfing lessons and deep-sea rafting before scoffing whisky-marinated Arctic char and cloudberry cheesecake at the quayside Børsen Spiseri fish restaurant.
(3) Following the lines of sticks to guide skiers in the deep snow, you can pick wild cloudberries to keep your energy up, and marvel at wild reindeer reflected in glassy mountain lakes.
(4) times per year, the most frequent being caribou (145, mean), beluga whale (74), hares (35), muskrat (26), whitefish (52), cisco (39), burbot (38), inconnu (37), Arctic charr (31), geese (44) ducks (19), ptamigan (18), cloudberries (22), cranberries (20) and blueberries (18).
(5) A Winter Survival Introduction covers nature navigation, flint fire-making, and a “clean eating” Arctic feast, with smoked reindeer consommé and cloudberry soup on the menu.
(6) 14 new cloudberry volatiles have been identified, including vanillin, methyl vanillate, acetovanillone and 3,5-dihydroxy-2-methyl-4H-pyran-4-one.
(7) The concentrations of 81 compounds in the unheated press juice of cloudberries are given.
(8) The qualitative and quantitative differences between the volatiles of fresh and heated cloudberries have been evaluated and the significance of the differences calculated.
(9) The volatile components of cloudberries (Rubus chamaemorus L.) have been analysed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, and about 80 components, comprising 93% of the aroma concentrate, have been identified.