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🌳 A fruit tree 🍇 A sweet fruit 🟣 A purple color
mulberry

mulberry

2 3.9
A sweet dark purple fruit like a blackberry
  • noun
  • /ˈmʌlˌbɛri/
translation icon : mora
  • The parents would sit out on the lawn on cane basket chairs and watch them as they tore around the garden or gathered in knots to share a loot of mulberries or black, teeth-splitting jamun from the garden trees.
  • mulberry jam
  • fresh mulberries
  • mulberry fruit

Examples

  • Some reports also indicate that dried mulberry fruit, along with hazelnuts, is or was the staple food of some Himalayan regions.

    Blog text (1)

  • Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, with purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

  • That's the secret to my mulberry punch.

    Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

  • I broke mulberries from the tree and ate them.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • What they really went for were the mulberries.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Morin is found in mulberries, figs, and other foods.

    Blog text (33)

  • The lovely mulberries are very beautiful in the way they are suspended, and I think I might start making pandan and mochi "puddings" with her recipe.

    Blog text (23)

  • I have olives, figs, and mulberries, but the idea of coppicing mulberries for goat fodder is something I'm going to work on.

    Blog text (1)

  • Then there's the garden: 175 feet by 85... with seven fruit trees — three apples, two pears... one plum and a mulberry — and, of course, my rosebushes.

    Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

  • She made a delicious pie using fresh mulberries from the farmer's market.

Synonyms

blackberry
vsmulberry
13 1.0

A large sweet black fruit made of many small round parts

is described by overall resemblance rather than focusing on drupelet structure
shadberry
vsmulberry
  • US
9.9

A red or purple berry that you can eat from a small wild tree

shares dark purple color but comes from a different tree genus
medlar
vsmulberry
9.9

A small brown fruit with tough skin and soft sweet inside that people often make into jam

is a sweet dark purple fruit rather than a brownish preserved type
medlar fruit
vsmulberry
9.3

A small brown fruit from a tree eaten after it becomes soft

is a sweet dark purple fruit rather than a brownish fruit eaten after softening

Compounds

mulberry tree
1 2.7

A tree that makes small dark fruit like blackberries

black mulberry
5.4

A tree with dark purple edible fruit and heart-shaped leaves

dwarf mulberry
8.8

A low plant that spreads along the ground and makes small orange berries

mulberry family
  • Specialized
7.2

A family of trees and shrubs with milky sap like mulberry and fig

mulberry fig
9.5

A large tree with wide branches from Africa and southwest Asia that grows small edible figs

mulberry liqueur
8.3

A sweet drink with alcohol that people make by soaking mulberries

red mulberry
  • US
5.8

A North American tree that grows dark purple sweet fruit

paper mulberry
8.6

A small Asian tree with bark people use to make cloth

white mulberry
  • Specialized
6.0

A tree from Asia with leaves that feed silkworms and white or pale red fruit

How Sweet

date
276 1.0
fig
32 1.0
mulberry
2 3.9
blackberry
13 1.0
raspberry
64 1.0
cranberry
61 1.4

Surface Forms

mulberry singular
mulberries plural

Morphology

mulberry = berry (semi-transparent) = mul + berry

The second element 'berry' is transparent, but the first element 'mul' is not a productive modern English morpheme, so the exact referent (the mul tree) is not fully deducible by learners.

Etymology

Mulberry comes from the old Latin name morus for the tree and the English berry, meaning 'small fruit'. So mulberry is simply the 'morus' fruit, which explains why the word refers to a sweet, dark berry.