Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable)Any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruits.

    any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry

  2. (countable)The fruit of this tree.

    Maulbeerbaum, Maulbeere

    шелкови́цаšelkovíca, шелко́вицаšelkóvica, ту́таtúta

    шовкови́цяšovkovýcja, шовко́вицяšovkóvycja, мо́рваmórva

  3. (countable, uncountable)A dark purple colour tinted with red.

    морво́вийmorvóvyj

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Ziri slept in a bed made from the mulberry tree.

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  2. Mulberries bear fruits in my garden.

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  3. They also use onion skins, apple, grape and mulberry leaves to create different shades of yellow.

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  4. Over the years, Clark has developed a liking for some invasive plants, like the white mulberry tree.

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  5. The cherry hangs by a long stalk, the plum and peach's are shorter. The mulberry’s stalk is very short.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
the tree:
the colour:
Русский
By meaning 2
the tree:
the fruit:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
the tree:
the fruit:

Origin

From Middle English mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English mōrberġe (“mulber

From Middle English mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English mōrberġe (“mulberry”) (q.v.), and probably partly from Middle Low German mulbere (“mulberry”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *mūrubaʀi ~ *mōrubaʀi, from Latin mōrus + Proto-West Germanic *baʀi. Compare Dutch moerbezie, moerbei (“mulberry”), German Maulbeere (“mulberry”).

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Forms

plural: mulberries
Singularmulberry
Pluralmulberries

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry:mulberry tree

Word family

11 related words

See also

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