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BRAMBLING

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bram⋅bling

  [bram-bling]
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–noun
an Old World finch, Fringilla montifringilla, the male of which is black and white with a reddish-brown breast.
Origin:
1560–70; earlier bramlin (bram- (var. of broom ) + -lin -ling 1 ); akin to G Brämling

bram⋅ble

  [bram-buhl] noun, verb, -bled, -bling.
–noun
1. any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
2. British. the common blackberry.
3. any rough, prickly shrub, as the dog rose.
–verb (used without object)
4. British. to look for and gather wild blackberries; pick blackberries from the vine.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE bræmbel, var. of brǣmel, equiv. to brǣm- (c. D braam broom ) + -el n. suffix
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bram·bling   (brām'blĭng)   
n.  A finch (Fringilla montifringilla) of northern Eurasia, having black, white, and rust-brown plumage.

[Probably from Old English *bræmbling : bræmbel, bramble + -ling, one connected with; see -ling1.]
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Word Origin & History

bramble 
O.E. bræmbel "rough, prickly shrub" (especially the blackberry bush), with euphonic -b-, from earlier bræmel, from P.Gmc. *bræmaz (see broom).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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brambling

(species Fringilla montifringilla), songbird belonging to the family Fringillidae (order Passeriformes) that breeds in coniferous and birch woods from Scandinavia to Japan and winters southward, millions sometimes appearing in Europe. The brambling is a 15-centimetre (6-inch) finch. The male is mostly black, with white rump and a light red-brown breast and shoulders; the female is brown, with streaked back.

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