bramble vs shrub

bramble

noun
  • Any thorny shrub. 

  • A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur. 

  • The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets. 

  • Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper. 

shrub

noun
  • A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. 

  • A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language. 

  • A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. 

verb
  • To mispronounce a word by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language. 

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