| 单词 | black or common mulberry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack or common mulberry a. Any of various mostly tropical and subtropical trees composing the genus Morus (family Moraceae), native to Asia, North and South America, and Africa and characterized by flowers in male or female catkins and typically cordate leaves; esp. (more fully black or common mulberry) M. nigra, with flavourful purple fruit, and (more fully white mulberry) M. alba, with insipid white fruit, both of which have been cultivated for many centuries, the former chiefly for its fruit, the latter as a food plant for silkworms. Also with distinguishing word. Cf. mulberry tree n.Mexican, red, white mulberry: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > mulberry bush moreeOE mulberrya1300 mulberry treec1350 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > mulberry mulberrya1300 mulberry bush1842 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 moreeOE mulberrya1300 mulberry treec1350 α. β. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Paralip. i. 15 Þe kyng ȝaf in to ierusalem..cedres as longe mulberies [L. sycomoros].c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 3954 (MED) The Molberye, Whos fruit was turned to blaknesse.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 92 When so euer you see the Mulbery begin to spring, you may be sure that winter is at an end.1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 29 Ash, elme, cypresse..mulberrie..and many other sorts.1617 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) 588 Vines, which they plant at the foot of the Mulberrie, the same Tree seeming to beare two Fruits.1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries Catal. 74 Morus alba... The white Mulberry.1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 360 We must not omit the black mulberry-tree.1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxviii. 436 Black Mulberry has rugged, heart-shaped leaves.1819 D. B. Warden Acct. U.S. I. 185 Red mulberry, Morus rubra.1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 I. 521 He..planted the gardens of the Tuileries with mulberries.1882 Garden 23 Dec. 545/2 The common Mulberry is a native of Italy, but has been grown in this country for more than 300 years.1910 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1909 193 Foremost in attractiveness to birds among cultivated fruit-bearing plants are mulberries.1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xvii. 167 The botanical order Urticales..includes other useful cultivated plants of such diverse kind as the hemp, mulberry, fig, [etc.].1987 K. Rushforth Tree Planting & Managem. (1990) 185/1 White mulberry..This tree is the principal one fed to silkworms in silk production but is less satisfactory in Britain than Black mulberry.1991 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) Apr. 187/1 The path opens out into a lawn with a vast catalpa and a sadly storm-torn mulberry of great age.a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 557 Celsi, murer, murberien. < as lemmas |
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