dwarf mulberry
- noun
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mora enana
- The dwarf mulberry thrives in cool climates and produces sweet, orange berries.
Examples
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Gardeners often plant dwarf mulberry as a ground cover in shaded areas.
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The fruit of the dwarf mulberry attracts birds and wildlife to the garden.
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The dwarf mulberry grows well in shaded areas.
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I found some dwarf mulberries in the garden.
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Gardeners often plant dwarf mulberry as a ground cover in shaded areas.
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The dwarf mulberry thrives in cool climates and produces sweet, orange berries.
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The fruit of the dwarf mulberry attracts birds and wildlife to the garden.
Synonyms
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A low northern plant that makes small edible orange berries
A low plant that grows in bogs and makes yellow edible berries
A low northern plant that makes orange berries you can eat in wet places
A creeping plant that lives many years and makes soft yellow-orange berries that taste like baked apples
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is broadly compositional: 'dwarf' (small) + 'mulberry' (mulberry tree/fruit) yields the expectation of a small or compact mulberry-like plant, so a B1 learner who knows the parts would grasp a general meaning. However, the specific botanical sense (a creeping, raspberry-like plant rather than a typical woody mulberry tree) is not fully predictable from the constituents, so full meaning requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Dwarf mulberry may come from a simple picture: a very small plant (dwarf) that bears berries like a tiny mulberry. Because it grows low and creeps over the ground with orange or yellow raspberry-like fruit, the name fits the 'ground cover' plant we mean today.