Other forms: mulberries
A mulberry is a dark purple fruit, or the tree it grows on. Pick mulberries, a mulberry tree, mulberry stains.
The white mulberry feeds silkworms and is the reason the tree spread across Asia and Europe. The fruit stains everything it touches and will not travel, which is why you rarely see it in shops. James the First planted them in England to start a silk industry, and it failed.
1nounmulberryA dark purple fruit, or the tree it grows on.
“The children's hands were stained purple from picking mulberries.”
mulberry is a fruit, or a tree.
Old English morberge, from Latin morum, a mulberry, plus berry. The l is an English alteration.
Latin
mōrus
Proto-West Germanic
*mōrubaʀi
Middle Low German
mulbere — mulberry
Old English
mōrberġe — mulberry
Middle English
mulbery
English, today
mulberry
From Middle English mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English mōrberġe (“mulberry”) (q.v.), and probably partly from Middle Low German mulbere (“mulberry”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic mōrubaʀi, from Latin mōrus + Proto-West Germanic baʀi. Compare Dutch moerbezie, moerbei (“mulberry”), German Maulbeere (“mulberry”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA