brambles
Prickly berry shrubs
Brambles are thorny, sprawling shrubs—especially blackberries and raspberries—or the prickly thickets they form.
The word evokes wild, tangled growth that catches at skin and clothing: We pushed through the brambles at the edge of the field.
Bramble can refer to a single plant or to the whole mass of intertwined growth.
Sharp plant projections
- briarsThorny wild shrubs
- underbrushDense low forest vegetation
- hedgerowLinear shrub boundary
- undergrowthLow forest vegetation
bushes · scrub · tangle · patch · coppice · shrubbery · spinney · brushwood
Dark aggregate fruit
- raspberriesAggregate drupelets from canes
- berriesSmall fleshy fruits
- pickingAct of selecting
- hedgerowsRows of dense shrubs
dewberries · harvest · gathering · buckets · stained fingers · jam · preserves · cobbler
Sharp plant projections
- scratchesShallow marks from abrasion
- snagsUnforeseen complications
- obstaclesThings in the way
- impenetrableImpossible to pass through
protective · deterrent · entanglement · snagging · catching · tearing · wounds · blood
thorns
Sharp plant projections
- briarsThorny wild shrubs
- underbrushDense low forest vegetation
- hedgerowLinear shrub boundary
undergrowth · bushes · scrub · tangle · patch · coppice · shrubbery · spinney · brushwood · briar patch
blackberries
Dark aggregate fruit
- raspberriesAggregate drupelets from canes
- berriesSmall fleshy fruits
- pickingAct of selecting
hedgerows · dewberries · harvest · gathering · buckets · stained fingers · jam · preserves · cobbler · wine
thorns
Sharp plant projections
impenetrable · protective · deterrent · entanglement · snagging · catching · tearing · wounds · blood · clothing
Sleeping Beauty
Curse-bound dormant royal
prince · hedge · magical · spell · overgrown · princess · awakening · Brothers Grimm · thicket · roses
- plantstree, plants, leaves, bluebonnet, trees
- dark forestshadows, gloom, moonlight, owls, wolves
- thorny plantsbriar, thistle, raspberry, brier, hawthorn
- weedingthistles, crabgrass, hoeing, hand weeding, herbicide
- overgrownovergrown, tangled, weedy, wild, unkempt
- undergrowthundergrowth, understory, thicket, shrubbery, underbrush
bramblesmanicured lawn
Meticulously maintained grass area
formal garden · topiary · parterre · cleared land · landscaped grounds
- bramble patchDense thorny shrub area
- bramble bushThorny wild shrub