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MULBERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("mulberry" is a kind of...):

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

Holonyms ("mulberry" is a part of...):

mulberry; mulberry tree (any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry

Synonyms:

mulberry; mulberry tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mulberry" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "mulberry"):

mulberry (sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mulberry"):

Morus alba; white mulberry (Asiatic mulberry with white to pale red fruit; leaves used to feed silkworms)

black mulberry; Morus nigra (European mulberry having dark foliage and fruit)

Morus rubra; red mulberry (North American mulberry having dark purple edible fruit)

Holonyms ("mulberry" is a member of...):

genus Morus; Morus (type genus of the Moraceae: mulberries)

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