mulberry

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

  1. noun any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry
  2. noun sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus

Etymology

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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Synonyms

mulberry tree

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