Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mulberry"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Mulberry
Heb. bakah, "to weep;" rendered "Baca" (R.V., "weeping") in Ps.
84:6. The plural form of the Hebrew bekaim is rendered "mulberry
trees" in 2 Sam. 5:23, 24 and 1 Chr. 14:14, 15. The tree here
alluded to was probably the aspen or trembling poplar. "We know
with certainty that the black poplar, the aspen, and the
Lombardy poplar grew in Palestine. The aspen, whose long
leaf-stalks cause the leaves to tremble with every breath of
wind, unites with the willow and the oak to overshadow the
watercourses of the Lebanon, and with the oleander and the
acacia to adorn the ravines of Southern Palestine" (Kitto). By
"the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees" we are
to understand a rustling among the trees like the marching of an
army. This was the signal that the Lord himself would lead forth
David's army to victory. (See {SYCAMINE}.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mulberry \Mul"ber*ry\, n.; pl. {Mulberries}. [OE. moolbery,
murberie, AS. murberie, where the first part is fr. L. morum
mulberry; cf. Gr. ?, ?. Cf. {Murrey}, {Sycamore}.]
1. (Bot.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus
{Morus}; also, the tree itself. See {Morus}.
2. 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
as a shade tree in America.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mulberry
n 1: any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit
that resembles the blackberry [syn: {mulberry tree}]
2: sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of
several mulberry trees of the genus Morus
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