different between mulberry vs bayberry

English

Etymology

From Middle English Mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English m?rber?e (“mulberry”) and partly from Middle Low German mulbere (“mulberry”). Compare Dutch moerbezie, moerbei (“mulberry”), German Maulbeere (“mulberry”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?lb??i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?lb??i/, /?m?lb?i/

Noun

mulberry (plural mulberries)

1. (botany) Any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruits.
   • 1837, Luigi Tinelli, Hints on the Cultivation of the Mulberry, with Some General Observations on the Production of Silk, page 39:

     Different qualities of the Mulberry. Among the different species of the Mulberry, it is ascertained that the Italian, (Morus italica) is eaten by the silk worm, with eager appetite. It's fruit is very small, and of a pale rose colour.

2. The fruit of this tree.
   • 2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN)

     You can also make good jam with mulberries, and they taste great cooked or mixed together with other fruits. Mulberries are rich in sugar with moderate amounts of vitamin C. Their rich colours are a sign that they contain high levels of […]

3. A dark purple colour tinted with red.

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Adjective

mulberry (comparative more mulberry, superlative most mulberry)

1. Of a dark purple color tinted with red.

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See also

Further reading

• mulberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Morus (Moraceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From bay +? berry.

Noun

bayberry (plural bayberries)

1. (Canada, US) The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.
   1. Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry.
2. The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XLIII:

     [T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut.

3. West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.

Synonyms

• (Morella cerifera): wax myrtle
• (species in the family Myricaceae): candleberry, wax myrtle

Derived terms

• Asian bayberry (Nageia nagi)
• bayberry tallow (Myrica cerifera)
• bayberry waxtree (Myrica cerifera)
• bayberry willow (Salix myricoides)
• California bayberry (Myrica californica)
• Chinese bayberry (Morella rubra, syn. Myrica rubra)
• faya bayberry (Myrica faya)
• Japanese bayberry (Morella rubra)
• northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
• red bayberry (Morella rubra)
• scentless bayberry (Myrica inodora)
• Sierra bayberry (Myrica hartwegii)
• southern bayberry (Myrica caroliniensis, Myrica cerifera)