mulberry
pronunciation
How to pronounce mulberry in British English:
UK [ ˈmʌlbəri]
How to pronounce mulberry in American English:
US [ ˈmʌlberi]
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- Noun:
- any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry
- sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus
Word Origin
- mulberry (n.)
- late 14c., developed from 13c. morberie, or cognate Middle High German mul-beri (alteration by dissimilation of Old High German mur-beri, Modern German Maulbeere); both from Latin morum "mulberry, blackberry," + Old English berie, Old High German beri "berry." The Latin word probably is from Greek moron "mulberry," from PIE *moro- "blackberry, mulberry" (cognates: Armenian mor "blackberry," Middle Irish merenn, Welsh merwydden "mulberry"). Children's singing game with a chorus beginning "Here we go round the mulberry bush" is attested from 1820s, first in Scotland.
Example
- 1. New mulberry trees wereplanted , silkworms and looms brought in .
- 2. A heavy storm destroyed the american harbor on june 19 but mulberry b remained in use for eight months .
- 3. Hellenistic greece appreciated the high quality of the chinese goods and made efforts to plant mulberry trees and breed silkworms in the mediterranean basin .
- 4. All that remains of abu mohammed 's ancestral home here in syria 's capital are two small adobe brick rooms and a few fig , loquat and mulberry trees .
- 5. The urbanisation of the key silk-growing region around shanghai has reduced the land available for mulberry trees , whose leaves are the only thing silk worms eat .