| mulberry | Origin: OE. Moolbery, murberie, AS. Murberie, where the first part is fr. L. Morum mulberry; cf. Gr,. Cf. Murrey, Sycamore. 1. <botany> The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus. 2. A dark pure colour, like the hue of a black mulberry. Mulberry mass. <biology> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mulberry calculus | A hard smooth urinary calculus composed of calcium oxalate, so-called because of its resemblance to a mulberry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mulberry molar | A molar tooth with alternating nonanatomical depressions and rounded enamel nodules on its crown surface, usually associated with congenital syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mulberry ovary | The type of ovary produced by the administration of anterior pituitary extracts to immature rats; such an ovary contains many more follicles than normal, with the follicles in various stages of development and with prominent corpora lutea on their surfaces, thus the perceived resemblance to a mulberry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mulberry spots | The abdominal eruption in typhus fever. (05 Mar 2000) |