mulberry family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Moraceae, characterized by deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having simple, alternate leaves, often milky sap, dense clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a fleshy berry, usually hollow in the center, and including the fig, mulberry, Osage orange, and rubber plant.

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Example Sentences

To make their beers even smoother and easier to swallow, many American brewers have been skimping on the use of hops, a perennial vine of the mulberry family.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I suppose the worms didn't know that it belonged to the mulberry family," said Clara, "and I don't see now why it does."

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

The mulberry family includes fifty-five genera and nearly a thousand species of temperate-zone and tropical plants.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

Not in the way of refreshments, just at present," continued their governess, "but only as belonging to the mulberry family; and we will begin with that curious tree the banyan, or Indian fig.

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman