bramble, briar; prickly shrub; fruit of bramble, blackberry
Latin word, found 18 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.17.4: … s venissent, impedirent, teneris arboribus incisis atque inflexis crebrisque in latitudinem ramis enatis [et] rubis sentibusque interiectis effecerant ut instar muri hae saepes munimentum praeberent, quo non modo non intrari …
Vergil, Eclogues 3.89: mella fluant illi, ferat et rubus asper amomum.
Vergil, Georgics 3.315: horrentisque rubos et amantis ardua dumos:
All forms of rubus