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Definition of Mulberry fig

1. Noun. Thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mulberry Fig

Literary usage of Mulberry fig

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

1. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"The grains of the mulberry (Fig. G54-G5G) are not the ovaries of a single flower, like those GO «55 «36 of the blackberry, which it superficially resembles ..."

2. Botany by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1881)
"Mulberry (Fig. 58).—A head of fruits, each consisting of a dry i-seeded little ... Aggregate fruit of mulberry. FIG. 59.—a, aggregate fruit of fig cut ..."

3. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1917)
"We have Goth, smakka "fig," which arose either from the medical confusion of the rhus with the mulberry fig, or from the current Syr. ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"To this list may now be added another mulberry (Fig. fl) observed by the writer during the past winter in Thomasville, ( -a. Its owner, Dr. TS Hopkins, ..."

5. Phyto-theology: Or, Botanical Sketches, Intended to Illustrate the Works of by John Hutton Balfour (1851)
"... mulberry (fig. 131), as well as the pine-apple (fig. Fig. 123. Kg. 129. 132), the bread-fruit (fig. 23, p. 38), cones (fig. Fig. 131. Fig. 128. ..."

6. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"The grains of the mulberry (Fig. 593, 594) are not the ovaries of a single flower, like those of the blackberry which it superficially resembles (Fig. ..."

7. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"The grains of the mulberry (Fig. G54-G5G) are not the ovaries of a single flower, like those GO «55 «36 of the blackberry, which it superficially resembles ..."

8. Botany by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1881)
"Mulberry (Fig. 58).—A head of fruits, each consisting of a dry i-seeded little ... Aggregate fruit of mulberry. FIG. 59.—a, aggregate fruit of fig cut ..."

9. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1917)
"We have Goth, smakka "fig," which arose either from the medical confusion of the rhus with the mulberry fig, or from the current Syr. ..."

10. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"To this list may now be added another mulberry (Fig. fl) observed by the writer during the past winter in Thomasville, ( -a. Its owner, Dr. TS Hopkins, ..."

11. Phyto-theology: Or, Botanical Sketches, Intended to Illustrate the Works of by John Hutton Balfour (1851)
"... mulberry (fig. 131), as well as the pine-apple (fig. Fig. 123. Kg. 129. 132), the bread-fruit (fig. 23, p. 38), cones (fig. Fig. 131. Fig. 128. ..."

12. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"The grains of the mulberry (Fig. 593, 594) are not the ovaries of a single flower, like those of the blackberry which it superficially resembles (Fig. ..."

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