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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. shrubby Asiatic tree having bark (tapa) that resembles cloth; grown as a shade tree in Europe and America; male flowers are pendulous catkins and female are urn-shaped followed by small orange-red aggregate berries;
[syn: paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mulberry \Mul"ber*ry\, n.; pl. Mulberries. [OE. moolbery, murberie, AS. murberie, where the first part is fr. L. morum mulberry; cf. Gr. ?, ?. Cf. Murrey, Sycamore.] 1. (Bot.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus. [1913 Webster] 2. A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry. [1913 Webster] Mulberry mass. (Biol.) See Morula. Paper mulberry, a tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Broussonetia \Broussonetia\ n. a genus of shade trees including the paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) of East Asia. Syn: genus Broussonetia. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Broussonetia papyrifera n 1: shrubby Asiatic tree having bark (tapa) that resembles cloth; grown as a shade tree in Europe and America; male flowers are pendulous catkins and female are urn-shaped followed by small orange-red aggregate berries [syn: paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera]