bramble | (noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | - |
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brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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brambly | (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: braky |
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carambola | (noun) deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert | Synonyms: star fruit |
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(noun) East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa carambola, carambola tree |
chlorambucil | (noun) an alkylating agent (trade name Leukeran) used to treat some kinds of cancer | Synonyms: Leukeran |
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dithyramb | (noun) (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) | - |
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(noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing | - |
dithyrambic | (adjective) of or in the manner of a dithyramb | - |
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frambesia | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: framboesia, yaws |
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framboesia | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: frambesia, yaws |
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framboise | (noun) the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange | Synonyms: European raspberry, Rubus idaeus, wild raspberry |
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garambulla | (noun) small berrylike fruit | - |
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(noun) arborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit | Synonyms: garambulla cactus, Myrtillocactus geometrizans |
overambitious | (adjective) excessively ambitious | - |
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perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
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(verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
perambulating | (adjective) strolling or walking around | - |
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perambulation | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll |
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(noun) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries | - |
perambulator | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
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ramble | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: meander |
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(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
(verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: jog, ramble on |
rambler | (noun) a person who takes long walks in the country | - |
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(noun) a person whose speech or writing is not well organized | - |
rambling | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, wandering, winding |
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(adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, excursive |
(adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: sprawling, straggling, straggly |
ramblingly | (adverb) in a rambling manner | Synonyms: discursively |
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rambotan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambutan |
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(noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambutan, rambutan tree |
rambunctious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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rambutan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambotan |
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(noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambotan, rambutan tree |
scramble | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scamper, scurry |
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(noun) an unceremonious and disorganized struggle | Synonyms: scuffle |
(verb) make unintelligible | - |
(verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: jumble, throw together |
(verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: beat |
(verb) to move hurriedly | - |
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
scrambled | (adjective) thrown together in a disorderly fashion | - |
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scrambler | (noun) electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception | - |
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(noun) a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground | Synonyms: dirt bike, trail bike |
(noun) a rapid mover; someone who scrambles | - |
unscramble | (verb) make intelligible | - |
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(verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, untangle |