different between bramble vs batology

English

Etymology

From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier br?mel, br?mel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *br?mil, diminutive of *br?m (English broom).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?æmb?l/
• Rhymes: -æmb?l

Noun

bramble (plural brambles)

1. Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper.
   • 2016, Ann Burnett, Take a Leaf Out of My Book (page 37)

     Jeanette is making bramble jelly. She is trying to listen to the Morning Story on Radio 4 while she goes about her task. Jeanette's brow is furrowed as she weighs the deep purple fruit and tips the berries into the heavy jelly pan […]
2. Any thorny shrub.
3. A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.

Derived terms

• stone bramble
• brambled
• brambling
• brambly

Translations

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (báton, “blackberry”) +? -ology.

Noun

batology (uncountable)

1. (botany) The scientific study of plants in the genus Rubus, commonly known as brambles.
   • 1999, The Naturalist, Volumes 124-127, page 112,

     Further knowledge of Rubus plant geography is steadily emerging, particular[ly] as co-workers such as D. Grant and T. Schofield are also contributing substantially to Yorkshire batology.

   • 2005, Lisa Robertson, Rubus Armeniacus: A Common Architectural Decorative Motif in the Temperate Mesophytic Region, in Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, page 125,

     In Species Plantarum, in 1753, Linnaeus identified two European species of Rubus within the large five-petaled family Rosa, thus beginning one of taxonomy?s largest studies — batology.

Related terms

• batologist

References

• E. Monasterio-Huelin, S. Castroviejo, Typification of the Names of Iberian Rubus Species Described by Sampaio, Taxon, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Aug., 1993), pp. 601-608