mulberry
Of a dark purple color tinted with redOf a dark purple color tinted with red.
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» Ziri slept in a bed made from the mulberry tree.
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1 sensesOf a dark purple color tinted with red.
морво́вийmorvóvyj
Examples
5 sentencesZiri slept in a bed made from the mulberry tree.
Mulberries bear fruits in my garden.
They also use onion skins, apple, grape and mulberry leaves to create different shades of yellow.
Over the years, Clark has developed a liking for some invasive plants, like the white mulberry tree.
The cherry hangs by a long stalk, the plum and peach's are shorter. The mulberry’s stalk is very short.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English mōrberġe (“mulberFrom 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
more mulberry, most mulberry| Comparative | more mulberry Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most mulberry Lesson |
regular
Word family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.