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Definition of Mulberry

1. Noun. Any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry.

2. Noun. Sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus.

Definition of Mulberry

1. n. The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.

Definition of Mulberry

1. Noun. Any of several trees, of the genus ''Morus'', having edible fruit ¹

2. Noun. the fruit of this tree ¹

3. Noun. a dark purple colour tinted with red. ¹

4. Adjective. Of a dark purple colour tinted with red. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mulberry

1. a tree bearing an edible, berrylike fruit [n -RIES]

Medical Definition of Mulberry

1. Origin: OE. Moolbery, murberie, AS. Murberie, where the first part is fr. L. Morum mulberry; cf. Gr,. Cf. Murrey, Sycamore. 1. The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus. 2. A dark pure colour, like the hue of a black mulberry. Mulberry mass. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mulberry

mukluks muktuk muktuks mulada muladas mulai mulatresses mulatta mulattas mulatto

mulattoes mulattos mulattress mulay mulberries mulberry (current term) mulberry calculus mulberry family mulberry fig mulberry ovary

mulberry spots mulberry tree mulberrylike mulch mulched mulcher mulches mulching mulching mower

Literary usage of Mulberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"Don't bother your heads about species, nor wait to get white mulberry while you have any other ; take what you can obtain on the spot, and trust to a genial ..."

2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"The flowers of the mulberry tree are either monoecious or dioecious, ... Shakespeare's mulberry, which was planted in his garden at New Place, Stratford, ..."

3. Indiana Historical Collections by Harlow Lindley, Indiana Historical Bureau (1916)
"Here we go round the mulberry bush, etc. This cold and frosty morning. This is the way we wash our clothes, All on a Monday morning. ..."

4. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"Of the comedies, The mulberry Garden (1668), which is partly founded on Moliere's ... The mulberry Garden, which is supposed to play about the time of ..."

5. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1907)
"Henry Bartleson, mulberry Ward. Mathias Sadler, mulberry Ward. ... Casper Crist, mulberry Ward. Valentine Clemens, has left the State, lived in Chestnut ..."

6. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"Don't bother your heads about species, nor wait to get white mulberry while you have any other ; take what you can obtain on the spot, and trust to a genial ..."

7. Indiana Historical Collections by Harlow Lindley, Indiana Historical Bureau (1916)
"Here we go round the mulberry bush, etc. This cold and frosty morning. This is the way we wash our clothes, All on a Monday morning. ..."

8. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"Of the comedies, The mulberry Garden (1668), which is partly founded on Moliere's ... The mulberry Garden, which is supposed to play about the time of ..."

9. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1907)
"Henry Bartleson, mulberry Ward. Mathias Sadler, mulberry Ward. ... Casper Crist, mulberry Ward. Valentine Clemens, has left the State, lived in Chestnut ..."

10. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"6, the mulberry, ana the Sycamore the Fig-mulberry, or Sycamore-fig (/'ic'« ... mulberry), is in Egypt and Palestine a tree of great importance and very ..."

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