MULBERRY TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mulberry tree mean? 

• MULBERRY TREE (noun)
  The noun MULBERRY TREE has 1 sense:

1. any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry

  Familiarity information: MULBERRY TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULBERRY TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mulberry; mulberry tree

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

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "mulberry tree"):

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 tree"):

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 tree" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

Two thousand a year without debt or drawback—except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)