Thursday, June 24, 2010

#175 bramble

bramble- any of various prickly herbaceous plants or shrubs of the blackberry family, or dog rose

- Old English braembel; Old Saxon bramal, Old High German bramo

It doesn't amuse me scrambling over rocks and scratching my legs in bramble bushes.

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