mulberry

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The final result of this repeated cleavage is the formation of a globular cluster of similar segmentation-cells, which we call the mulberry-formation or morula.

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  1. noun Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Morus, having unisexual flowers in drooping catkins and edible multiple fruit.
  2. noun The sweet fruit of any of these trees.
  3. noun Any of several similar or related trees.
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  • The things that grew were all cultivated, and typical of the desert and Egypt itself--mulberry trees, date-palms, oranges, lemons and pomegranates. —  136 - The Pharaoh's Ghost
  • A few trees of the paper-mulberry were seen, from which the natives made a cloth in a similar manner to the Otaheitans, but the quantity was so small that it was only used for ornament. —  The Life of Captain James Cook
  • This tree promises to share in after times the celebrity of Shakspere's mulberry, and Pope's willow. —  Three Years in Europe
  • In the mouth it is lightly tannic with flavors of cherry, mulberry, and plum, and a somewhat abrasive finish that tastes like chewing on a plum pit. —  Vinography: A Wine Blog
  • He pointed out to me the Tout the small white mulberry, which is planted in little squares of the city. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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  1. Middle English mulberrie, from Old English mōrberie and Middle Low German mūlberi, mūrberi : both from Latin mōrum + Old English berie, berry or Old High German beri, berry; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English mulbery, moolbery, prob. from Anglo-Saxon *mōrberie (not recorded, but cf. mōrbeám, mulberry-tree; the Anglo-Saxon form *mūrberie. often cited, is erroneous) = Dutch moerbezie = Low German mulberie = Old High German mōrberi, mūrberi, Middle High German mulbere, German maulbeere = Swedish mulbär = Danish morbær, mulberry, the mulberry-tree, from mōr, Middle English more, from Latin mōrum, from Greek μόρον, μῶρον, a mulberry; Latin mōrus, Greek μορέα, a mulberry-tree: see moreand berry. The dissimilation of the first r to l is due to the following r.
 

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