bramble bush

Prickly berry plant

A bramble bush is a thorny shrub, typically a blackberry or raspberry plant, with arching stems covered in prickles.

Brambles grow in dense, tangled thickets that snag clothing and scratch skin: We got scratched up pushing through the bramble bushes.

The term appears in folk songs and fairy tales as an obstacle or hiding place.

Related

wild · wild rose · berries · berry picking · tangled · scratches · briars · overgrown · hedgerow · raspberry · picking · vines · dense · snagged · woodland · scrub · wilderness · roses

Opposites
cultivation status

bramble bushgarden rose

Ornamental flowering shrub

hybrid tea rose · ornamental shrub · topiary · cultivar · espalier

plant texture/accessibility

bramble bushsoft grass

lamb's ear · fern · clover patch

landscape character

bramble bushformal garden

Symmetrically designed planted space

parterre · English garden · manicured lawn · Japanese garden · rose garden

Family

bramble, bush, brambles, brambled, brambly, bushes, bushy, bushier, bushiest

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G