mulberry

«mulberry» in Mova's school dictionary: A tree with broad leaves and dark purple, red or white… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mulberry, mulberries)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tree with broad leaves and dark purple, red or white berries like long blackberries. tree →

2) The fruit of this tree. tree →

3) A dark purple-red colour. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and science lessons silkworms eat only mulberry leaves, so mulberry trees were key for making silk in China. In songs «Here we go round the mulberry bush» is an old nursery rhyme. Phrases: «mulberry bush», «mulberry jam».

examples

• Silkworms eat mulberry leaves. tree →
• The mulberries stained my fingers purple. tree →
• We sang «Here we go round the mulberry bush». tree →
• Granny makes mulberry jam. tree →
• A mulberry tree can live for hundreds of years. tree →
• Her coat is a deep mulberry colour. tree →

note

Plural: mulberries. Countable.

In the corpora

• In a school box, small white caterpillars munch mulberry leaves so loudly that the tray sounds like soft rain.
• Silkworms are the caterpillars of the domestic silk moth, and they eat almost nothing but fresh mulberry leaves.
• The Chinese learned to make silk from the cocoons of silkworms that eat mulberry leaves, and kept the method secret for centuries.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mulberry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.