morus alba

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   Asiatic mulberry with white to pale red fruit; leaves used to feed silkworms

   Synonymswhite mulberry

   Broadermulberry

Questions about morus alba

What does morus alba mean?

morus alba means "Asiatic mulberry with white to pale red fruit; leaves used to feed silkworms".

What is another word for morus alba?

Close synonyms include white mulberry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is morus alba a common word?

morus alba is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.