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mulberryn.adj. Origin: Probably a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymon: Middle Low German mūlbēre. Etymology: Probably < Middle Low German mūlbēre (Old Saxon mūlberi ), cognate with Old High German mūlberi (Middle High German mūlbere , German Maulbeere ) < a variant (probably dissimilated, although compare Old Saxon mūlbōm , Old High German mūlboum mulberry tree) of the base of Dutch moerbezie , Middle Low German mōrbēre , mūrbēre , Old High German mūrberi , mōrberi , ultimately < classical Latin mōrum mulberry (see more n.2) + the Germanic base of berry n.1The α. forms probably never had any real currency, and are unlikely to have any immediate connection with earlier (Old English) more-berry n. at more n.2 Compounds. Mur- in the form murberien in quot. a1300 at sense A. 1aα. is probably < Anglo-Norman and Old French mur , mure mulberry, blackberry (c1240; French mûre ), altered form of moure (12th cent.) < post-classical Latin mora , feminine singular (4th cent.), reinterpretation of classical Latin mōra , plural of mōrum (see more n.2); murer in the same quot. is probably after Anglo-Norman and Old French murier , morer , variants of morier mulberry tree. The form morberies in Caxton (see quot. 1480 at sense A. 1bα. ) is after Dutch moerbezie; and the 16th cent. instances (see quot. 1548 at sense A. 1bα. , and quot. ?1533 at mulberry tree n.) are probably pedantic corrections of mulbery after Latin mōrum. A. n. 1. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > mulberry bush the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > mulberry the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > mulberry bush α. a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 557 Celsi, murer, murberien. the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > mulberry α. 1480 (Caxton) (1964) 12 Cheryes sloes Morberies strawberies. 1548 W. Turner sig. A.vv A litle blacke bery lyke a blacke morbery. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > raspberry bush 1672 J. Josselyn 93 Raspberry, here called Mulberry. 1832 W. D. Williamson I. 114 High bush Blackberry is sometimes called ‘Mulberry’. 1848 II. 313/1 Flax-dodder—botanically Cuscuta Epilinum..is popularly known in Somersetshire as ‘the mulberry’. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Mulberry, Australian, Hedycarya Pseudo-Morus. Indian Mulberry, Morinda citrifolia. New Zealand Mulberry, Entelea arborescens. 1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Mulberry..(2) Rubus fruticosus L.—Norf... (4) Pyrus Aria. L.—Aberdeensh. 1898 N. L. Britton & A. Brown III. 74 French mulberry, Callicarpa Americana. 1913 N. L. Britton & A. Brown (ed. 2) II. 276 Rubus odoratus. Purple-flowering Raspberry. Thimble-berry... Scotch caps. Mulberry. 1936 J. W. Audas 229 Litsea dealbata... A well-known tree of Queensland and New South Wales called Native Mulberry or Pigeon-Berry Tree. 1970 G. E. Evans xv. 165 It is true that a certain species of bramble has bigger fruit than the average blackberry and that some East Anglians even today call this variety the mulberry. the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [noun] > other purples 1882 21 Oct. 354/3 Among other seedlings the following struck us as being remarkably fine..Darkness, deep mulberry. 1928 Jan. 425/1 The glass curtains are of ruffled net with flowered chintz over-draperies of rose, green, mulberry, and blue. 1971 15 Oct. 41 (advt.) Pullover..in Antwerp Brown, French Navy and Mulberry. 1995 R. Kelly 372 They dawdled so beautifully by the shallow river In soft clothes faded mulberry, pistachio, rainwater white. society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > floating harbour > specific 1945 15 Dec. 263/2 The word ‘Mulberry’ was selected as the secret name for the artificial harbour..from its being that which happened to come next in rotation on the Admiralty's List of Ships' Names then available for use. 1958 5 June 930/2 Further north—in the island of Schouwen-Duiveland—I saw where it had been necessary to float great mulberry harbour caissons in and sink them in the gaps. 1965 R. B. Oram viii. 152 Movable quays of the war time Mulberry pattern. 1972 11 May 9/3 Vice-Adml Hughes-Hallett told me he..frankly considered the ‘embellishments’ of the Mulberries quite superfluous. 1988 E. Wood et al. 93 Relics of the Second World War include several concrete ‘Mulberry Harbour’ units in the Bognor area. B. adj.the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples 1803 G. Colman i. i. 3 A waddling woman, wi' a mulberry face. 1837 C. Dickens xxv. 261 If ever there was a wolf in a mulberry suit, that ere Job Trotter's him. 1951 M. Kennedy i. i. 10 I impressed her with my mulberry house-coat. 1974 R. Harris xii. 83 Sir Jonathan wore a white doublet, and mulberry trunk hose. 1994 R. Pybus 71 Her skin was almond in its lightest parts, grew darker into oiled-with-love mulberry blackness. Compounds C1. a. the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [noun] > other purples 1776 4 Sept. 4/1 (advt.) A flea-bitten grey Mare, 8 or 9 years old, paces and trots, about 15 hands high, she has a spot about the bigness of a dollar on her off thigh near a mulberry colour, neither brand nor ear-mark. 1870 J. Yeats 344 The cochineal insect is small, rugose, and of a deep mulberry colour. 1944 14 Apr. 308 Acid-fast organisms were red, non-acid-fast forms were blue, partially acid-fast forms mulberry color. 2000 (Electronic ed.) 9 Nov. A diningroom across the hall is painted a rich mulberry colour and has an old castiron fireplace. 1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ (new ed.) iv. sig. Hvii Mulbry frute, While yet no blacke they weare. 1923 M. M. Boyd 23 I waited, and stored in my basket of green leaves All of the mulberry fruit that you dropped through the branches upon me. 2000 (Electronic ed.) 16 Jan. As you'd expect from a wine produced in the very good 1999 vintage, this is rich and soft and full of sweet plum and mulberry fruit. 1801 P. De La Bigarre On raising Silk Worms in (ed. 2) 1 iv. ii. 414 Last March, after the planting a mulberry hedge according to the above directions..we perceived..that the greatest part were putting forth leaves. 1913 W. Cather ii. vi. 134 She led them to the northwest corner of the orchard, sheltered on one side by a thick mulberry hedge and bordered on the other by a wheatfield. 1985 26 Sept. ix. 2/5 A swarm had lit in a neighbor's mulberry hedge. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. (rev. ed.) iii. xlviii. 409 If you lay them [sc. Damaske-plums] betweene mulberrie-leaues, or vine-leaues, one leare aboue another in a close box made for the purpose. 1727–41 E. Chambers at Silk In this state it feeds on mulberry-leaves. 1836 J. F. Dauls I. viii. 292 They collect a quantity of the mulberry-leaves, which are devoted to the nourishment of the imperial depôt of silkworms. 1987 T. Lewis in S. Ravenel (1988) 28 I was still thinking about Mrs. Barton and her sticky comments like mulberry leaves with insect eggs sewn inside them. 1707 J. Moore (title page) How to make..Gooseberry, and Mulberry Wines. 1875 Apr. 766/2 In 1869, a bottle of mulberry wine was dug up from the ruins of the President's cellar. 1999 (Electronic ed.) 13 Aug. Diplomats who tried mulberry wine during last week's mulberry and silk festival in Roi-et praised the drink as very tasty. b. the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples 1787 W. Withering (ed. 2) I. 147 Mulberry coloured. 1836 C. Dickens (1837) xvi. 161 He was attracted by the appearance of a young fellow in mulberry-coloured livery. 1888 XXIII. 677/1 The eruption which..consists of dark red (mulberry coloured) spots or blotches varying in size. 1932 A. Huxley iv. 74 Like aphides and ants, the leaf-green Gamma girls, the black semi-Morons swarmed round the entrances... Mulberry-coloured Beta-Minuses came and went among the crowds. 1986 S. A. Williams 102 The contrast between his mulberry-colored mouth and the pink areola surrounding her nipple. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] 1812 40 23 A mulberry-faced, bumper-loving blade. 1868 Ld. Tennyson 54 The mulberry-faced Dictator's orgies. 1891 at Mulberry Mulberry-leaved booby bark, the bark of Cinchona purpurea. 1924 R. Graves 6 A dissolute Mulberry-nosed philosopher. 1890 15 318 Form No.2..erects into dark raspberry or mulberry red immature sporangia. 1927 14 Mar. 5 Pomegranate, mulberry red, mushroom, and ashes of roses, a colour that looks like blue ash with a touch of flame, are among the fashion reds. 1945 W. de la Mare 35 His large mulberry-red face and eyes like bits of agate. 1999 (Electronic ed.) 1 June A small, mulberry-red spot, like a beauty mark, often appears at the leaf axils [of sweet peas]. C2. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Oriolidae > genus Oriolus (oriole) > other types of 1891 A. J. North in I. 113 It [sc. the Southern Sphecotheres] is fairly common on the Tweed River, where it is locally known as the ‘Mulberry-bird’, from the decided preference it evinces for that species of fruit. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. II. Mulberry-bird, the rose-colored pastor. 1966 N. W. Cayley (ed. 4) 21 Southern Figbird... Also called Mulberry-bird and Banana-bird... Flocks may be seen feeding in native fruit- and berry-bearing trees, and sometimes in orchards, where they eat mulberries, figs, and other soft fruits. 1912 E. F. Smith in 2 175 Those readers who have kept abreast of the literature of the bacterial mulberry blight will recall that..I have used Boyer and Lambert's name Bacterium mori. 1924 11 169 (title) The mulberry blight in Britain. 1986 46 559 The first [silk boom in the U.S.] was tied to experiments in sericulture that came to a ruinous end in the mulberry blight of the 1840s. 1731 P. Miller (ed. 2) at Chenopodio Morus Mulberry-Blite... The whole Plant hath the appearance of a Blite; but the fruit is succulent, and in Shape like a Mulberry or Strawberry. 1796 C. Marshall (1813) xix. 350 Mulberry blight, or more properly blite..whose fruit resembles a red unripe mulberry. 1857 R. G. Mayne (1860) Mulberry Blight, common name for the Chenopodio-morus, or Blitum capitatum of Linn. 1892 at Mulberry Mulberry body, a term for the Morula, or mass of cells formed by the segmentation of the yolk of an impregnated ovum. 1765 T. Short 231 Those of the mulberry calculus, which had laid long in former mixtures. 1856 R. Druitt (ed. 7) 572 The Mulberry Calculus is composed of oxalate of lime. It is dark red, rough, and tuberculated. 1993 71 429/2 The primary spheres aggregated to form mulberry calculi. 1819 1 403 (note) The sarcomatous state of the lining membrane of the eyelids, described by the Greek writers under the name of Pladarotis, and by old English surgeons under the expressive appellation of the Mulberry-eyelid. the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid > fertilized ovum and parts 1879 tr. E. Haeckel I. 189 We call this mass the mulberry-germ (morula). the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid > fertilized ovum and parts 1851 W. B. Carpenter (ed. 2) 473 A large part of its structure having undergone but little change from the state of the ‘mulberry mass’. 1929 15 293 The embryonic apparatus is composed of a so-called ‘mulberry mass’. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > disorders of teeth 1917 34 770 The sixth year molar..has been called the ‘honeycombed molar of hereditary syphilis’. We have spoken of it in our clinics as the ‘mulberry molar’, likening the worm-eaten center of the cutting surface to the appearance of the tip of a mulberry. 1941 K. H. Thoma v. 242 The mulberry molar is covered on the sides with normal, smooth enamel, but the occlusal surface is pinched together, dwarfed, rough, and hypoplastic, often pigmented. 1998 39 264/2 Osseous and dental changes encountered in congenital syphilis such as..mulberry molars, and Hutchinson's incisors. 1850 W. Jenner in 33 27 Typhus fever—Mulberry rash. 1851 R. Dunglison (ed. 8) 879/2 Typhus... A ‘mulberry rash’, appearing on the fifth to the seventh day of the disease. a1883 C. H. Fagge (1886) I. 140 The roseola in each case faded before the mulberry rash came out. 1753 Suppl. Mulberry shell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.adj.a1300 |
