MULBERRY


Meaning of MULBERRY in English

ˈməlˌberē, -_b(ə)rē, -ri — see berry noun

Etymology: Middle English mulberie, murberie, from Old French moure, meure mulberry (fruit), (from — assumed — Vulgar Latin mora, from Latin, plural of morum mulberry — fruit — , from Greek moron mulberry — fruit — , blackberry) + Middle English berie, berye berry; probably akin to Armenian mor blackberry

1.

a. : a tree of the genus Morus — compare paper mulberry

b. : the edible pleasantly acid berrylike usually dark purple fruit of the mulberry tree

c. : thimbleberry

d. : any of several blackberries

e. : any of several other plants (as dodder and whitebeam)

2.

a. : a dark purple that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average prune or plum (sense 6b) and redder and paler than mulberry purple

b. : a purplish black that is bluer and stronger than black plum — called also morello, murrey

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