different between mulberry vs wolfberry

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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Further reading

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

English

Etymology

wolf +? berry, of unknown origin.

Noun

wolfberry (plural wolfberries)

1. Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium.

   Synonyms: boxthorn, matrimony vine, desert thorn

2. Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense

   Synonyms: Chinese matrimony vine, Chinese wolfberry

3. The berry of this plant.

   Synonyms: goji, goji berry

4. The western snowberry, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, a shrub native to nothern and central North America.

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Further reading

• goji on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lycium barbarum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lycium chinense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia