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BRAMBLE BUSH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bramble bush" is a kind of...):

bramble (any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bramble bush"):

bush lawyer; lawyer bush; lawyerbush; Rubus australis; Rubus cissoides (stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth)

Rubus saxatilis; stone bramble (European trailing bramble with red berrylike fruits)

blackberry; blackberry bush (bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle)

raspberry; raspberry bush (woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries)

Holonyms ("bramble bush" is a member of...):

genus Rubus; Rubus (large genus of brambles bearing berries)

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