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brambling

[bram-bling]

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- (variant of broom) + -lin -ling¹); akin to German Brämling

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noun

any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.

British. the common blackberry.

any rough, prickly shrub, as the dog rose.

verb (used without object)

British. to look for and gather wild blackberries; pick blackberries from the vine.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English bræmbel, variant of brǣmel, equivalent to brǣm- (cognate with Dutch braam broom) + -el noun suffix

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brambling (ˈbræmblɪŋ)

—n
	a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail

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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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