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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MUL'BERRY, n. The berry or fruit of a true of the genus Morus.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry [syn: mulberry, mulberry tree]
2: sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English murberie, mulberie, from Anglo-French mure, moure mulberry (from Latin morum, from Greek moron) + Middle English berie berry Date: 14th century 1. any of a genus (Morus of the family Moraceae, the mulberry family) of trees with an edible usually purple multiple fruit that is an aggregate of juicy one-seeded drupes; also the fruit 2. a dark purple or purplish black

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 any deciduous tree of the genus Morus, grown originally for feeding silkworms, and now for its fruit and ornamental qualities. 2 its dark-red or white berry. 3 a dark-red or purple colour. Etymology: ME mol-, mool-, mulberry, dissim. f. murberie f. OE morberie, f. L morum: see BERRY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mulberry Mul"ber*ry, n.; pl. Mulberries. [OE. moolbery, murberie, AS. murberie, where the first part is fr. L. morum mulberry; cf. Gr. ?, ?. Cf. Murrey, Sycamore.] 1. (Bot.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus. 2. A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry. Mulberry mass. (Biol.) See Morula. Paper mulberry, a tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mulberries) A mulberry or a mulberry tree is a tree which has small purple berries which you can eat. N-VAR • Mulberries are the fruit of a mulberry tree. N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Heb. bakah, "to weep;" rendered "Baca" (R.V., "weeping") in Ps. 84:6. The plural form of the Hebrew bekaim is rendered "mulberry trees" in 2 Sam. 5:23, 24 and 1 Chr. 14:14, 15. The tree here alluded to was probably the aspen or trembling poplar. "We know with certainty that the black poplar, the aspen, and the Lombardy poplar grew in Palestine. The aspen, whose long leaf-stalks cause the leaves to tremble with every breath of wind, unites with the willow and the oak to overshadow the watercourses of the Lebanon, and with the oleander and the acacia to adorn the ravines of Southern Palestine" (Kitto). By "the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees" we are to understand a rustling among the trees like the marching of an army. This was the signal that the Lord himself would lead forth David's army to victory. (See SYCAMINE.)