1.
[syn: mulberry, mulberry tree]
2. sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mulberry \Mul"ber*ry\, n.; pl. Mulberries. [OE. moolbery,
murberie, AS. murberie, where the first part is fr. L. morum
mulberry; cf. Gr. ?, ?. Cf. Murrey, Sycamore.]
1. (Bot.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus
Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.
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2. A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.
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Mulberry mass. (Biol.) See Morula.
Paper mulberry, a tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), related
to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa
cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in
China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen
as a shade tree in America.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mulberry
n 1: any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit
that resembles the blackberry [syn: mulberry, mulberry
tree]
2: sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of
several mulberry trees of the genus Morus