mulberry tree
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- noun
- /ˈmʌlˌbɛri tri/
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mora
- The backyard is filled with a magnificent mulberry tree that produces sweet, juicy berries every summer.
- thousands of mulberry trees
- mulberry trees and olives
- mulberry trees and vines
It's too cold, too cold for growing of Mulberry trees.
- It's too cold, too cold for growing of Mulberry trees.
- And so she decided she would bring this by smuggling the silkworm eggs and also the seeds of the Mulberry tree in her headdress.
Examples
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Amatis reported that he had successfully transplanted all his mulberry trees from Charlestown and that he looked forward to distributing them to the more developed plantations the following year.
Academic text (2009) -
Eventually, the garden's only useful crop was mulberry trees, while everything else wasted away.
Academic text (2009) -
When they passed the mulberry tree, he felt an urge to turn around and go on walking for a while.
Fiction book (1998) -
And then I have this, I have this Mulberry tree that gives us amazing berries.
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I remember other insignificant details too: a garden, a mulberry tree, a washing line, and an ironing board on the back porch.
Fiction book (1993) -
Four brooding hens and a rooster pecked around under the young mulberry tree.
Fiction book (1994) -
A solitary mulberry tree crowns the hill behind Gbekli Tepe.
Academic text (2008) -
In August, when writing an update about the silk industry, Stephens mentioned briefly that the mulberry trees in the public garden furnished a substantial amount of leaves used to feed the silkworms.
Academic text (2009) -
Liu is particularly excited to show off stumps of mulberry trees and the imprints of their leaves, evidence that one household was involved in silk production.
Academic text (2011) -
Blue grapes climbing on a white-painted arbor, a mulberry tree rank with fruit that dyed our fingers purple.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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A tree that produces sweet berries and has leaves eaten by silkworms
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Morphology
The phrase 'mulberry tree' is a transparent noun–noun/adj–noun combination meaning 'a tree that is a mulberry', so its meaning is directly predictable from 'mulberry' + 'tree'. This compositional type is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Mulberry tree names the tree that makes the sweet, blackberry-like fruit called mulberries. Its leaves also feed silkworms, so people often remember the tree by thinking of both the fruit and silk.