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单词 mulberry tree
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mulberry treen.

Brit. /ˈmʌlb(ə)rɪ ˌtriː/, U.S. /ˈməlˌbɛri ˌtri/
Forms: see mulberry n. and tree n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mulberry n., tree n.
Etymology: < mulberry n. + tree n.
A tree that bears mulberries; = mulberry n. 1a.
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c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxxvii. 52 (MED) He sloȝe..her mulbery-trews wyþ rim-frost.
a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 647 Morus, mulberytre.
a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 16 (MED) Þe fruyȝt of strawbery or mulbery tree.
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Met. (Roxburghe Club) x. iv Morbery trees, Okes, Planes [etc.].
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Di v More bery tre, mourier.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. Bv There is no doubt but if art be added in planting mulbery trees..there will rise as great profite in time to the Virginians, as thereof doth now to the Persians, Turkes, Italians and Spaniards.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. vii. 389 The Sycamore..is called the Ægyptian Figtree. The tree for leafe, bignesse, and barke, is like unto the Mulberie tree.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 184 [Silkworms] will be no where merry nor vsefull, but where are store of Mulbery Trees.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Morus,..The Mulberry-tree.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. ii. 28 Even the groves of mulberry trees had been hewn by the enemy to light fires.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. x. 189 The good understanding between the Colonel and Miss Dashwood seemed rather to declare that the honours of the mulberry-tree, the canal, and the yew arbour, would all be made over to her . View more context for this quotation
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. x. 335 Sitting under the mulberry tree in the back garden.
1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 178 The mulberry trees rake heaven and drop their fruit.
1967 M. Glenny tr. M. Bulgakov Master & Margarita xvi. 198 A muddy stream flowed in the shade of a clump of gaunt mulberry trees.
2001 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 8 Feb. Kiss under the mulberry tree where the poet penned Ode to a Nightingale.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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