mulberry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sweet edible berry, usually dark purple or red, that resembles a blackberry

   We gathered ripe mulberries and cooked them into jam.

2. 2
   noun

   a tree of the genus Morus that bears mulberries, whose leaves feed silkworms

   The farmer planted a mulberry to provide leaves for the silkworms.

Common collocations

• mulberry tree Noun + noun

From Middle English mulbery, partly from Old English morberge and probably influenced by Middle Low German mulbere. The first element ultimately reflects Latin morus, "mulberry tree," while the second is the inherited word berry. Related forms appear in Dutch moerbei and German Maulbeere.

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