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A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry. 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 a…

Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.

floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

Hick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.

ective note. Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.

Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

iquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill (Geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [Written also geranium.]

A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry. Dunglison.

Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric.

by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.

A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry.

An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura (M. aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.

A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.

s), each of these again divides into two, and so on, thus giving rise to a mass of cells (mulberry mass, or morula), all equal and similar, from the growth and development of which the future animal is to be formed. This constitutes regular segmentation. Quite frequently, however, the equality and regularity of cleavag…

e consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.

mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.

A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.