mulberry
Americannoun
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mulberries
plural
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the edible, berrylike collective fruit of any tree of the genus Morus.
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a tree of this genus, as M. rubra red mulberry, or American mulberry bearing dark-purple fruit, M. nigra black mulberry bearing dark-colored fruit, or M. alba white mulberry bearing nearly white fruit and having leaves used as food for silkworms.
noun
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any moraceous tree of the temperate genus Morus, having edible blackberry-like fruit, such as M. alba ( white mulberry ), the leaves of which are used to feed silkworms
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the fruit of any of these trees
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any of several similar or related trees, such as the paper mulberry and Indian mulberry
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a dark purple colour
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( as adjective )
a mulberry dress
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mulberry
First recorded in 1225–75; Middle English mulberie, dissimilated variant of murberie, Old English mōrberie, equivalent to mōr- (from Latin mōrum “mulberry”) + berie; see origin at berry
Vocabulary lists containing mulberry
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It involves feeding mulberry leaves to silkworms, harvesting their cocoons and extracting the silk fibres.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
That problem is largely attributed to paper mulberry trees, which were planted extensively during the city's early development.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
Hiemer smuggled part of his mother’s earthy remains to his garden, he said, and planted a mulberry tree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
It included 16 ingredients, Indian mulberry, golden eye-grass, the deciduous perennial Asian lizard’s tail and the carrot-like plant Szechuan Lovage among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2024
He unwrapped a fried-egg sandwich for himself and brought over a mulberry leaf from the cash register drawer for Chester.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
He said mulberries also grow very quickly so a gardener could potentially have mulberries the first spring after planting a tree.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
In the green valley grew apples, walnuts and mulberries.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Garlic mustard and chickweed at the start of spring, elderflower and nettle in the season; serviceberries, mulberries and mugwort in summer; and pawpaws, persimmons and crab apples in fall.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022
We need your help in amassing a large amount of mulberries for our kettle sour!
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2021
Wajma had said, energetically shoveling another handful of mulberries into her sunken mouth.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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