Crossword clues for morus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morus \Mo"rus\, n. [L., mulberry tree. See Mulberry.] (Bot.) A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry.
Note:
Morus alba is the white mulberry, a native of India or China, the leaves of which are extensively used for feeding silkworms, for which it furnishes the chief food.
Morus multicaulis, the many-stemmed or Chinese mulberry, is only a form of white mulberry, preferred on account of its more abundant leaves.
Morus nigra, the black mulberry, produces a dark-colored fruit, of an agreeable flavor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
genus of mulberry trees, from Latin morus "mulberry tree."
Wikipedia
Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, comprises 10–16 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.
The closely related genus Broussonetia is also commonly known as mulberry, notably the paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera. Mulberries are fast-growing when young, but soon become slow-growing and rarely exceed tall. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple and often lobed; lobes are more common on juvenile shoots than on mature trees. The leaves are serrated on the margin.
The trees can be monoecious or dioecious. The mulberry fruit is a multiple fruit, long. Immature fruits are white, green, or pale yellow. In most species the fruits turn pink and then red while ripening, then dark purple or black, and have a sweet flavor when fully ripe. The fruits of the white-fruited cultivar are white when ripe; the fruit of this cultivar is also sweet, but has a very bland flavor compared with darker varieties.
Morus may refer to:
- Morus (plant), a genus of trees
- Morus (bird), or Gannet, a genus of seabird in the family Sulidae
- Thomas More (1478–1535), or Thomas Morus, English philosopher
- Moors, or Mōrus in late Latin, people of the Maghreb region
- Latin word for Morula
- Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
- redirect gannet
Usage examples of "morus".
But on the fourth of the month Hideyoshi had made peace with the Mori, on the fifth he had departed, on the seventh he had arrived at Himeji, on the ninth he had turned toward Amagasaki, on the thirteenth he had struck down Mitsuhide in the battle at Yamazaki, and by the time Katsuie had reached the borders of Omi, he had already swept the capital clear of the remaining enemy troops.
The Mori surviviors had come out of the forest to trade furs for arrowheads with the Danians, just as they had before the disaster.
The Danians and the Mori enslaved people who were captured in war until they were ransomed or gave service for some kind of blood debt.
Old Mororan 9 30 4 28 Usu 3 99 6 2 Lebunge 1 27 5 22 Oshamambe 56 38 6 34 Yamakushinai 40 4 18 Otoshibe 40 2 3 Mori 105 3 29 Togenoshita 55 6 7 Hakodate 37,000 souls 3 29 About 358 English miles.
But Takamatsu Castle is now the pivot of the western provinces, and its fall would surely signal the demise of the Mori clan.
In the west, Hideyoshi was nailed down at Takamatsu Castle, grappling with the armies of the Mori.
Akechi, Araki, and Endo, knowing his loyalty, had persuaded Oda to send him to help Hideyoshi fight the Mori.
Pluribus enim erat mentis desiderium mori priusquam ad propria reverterentur, (Glaber, l.
The British Pharmacopceia directs that Syrupus Mori should be prepared by heating 50 fluid drachms of the expressed juice to boiling point, then cooling and filtering.
It has been suggested that the generic name of the Mulberry, Morus, has been derived from the Latin word mora (delay), from this tardy expansion of the buds, and as the wisest of its fellows, the tree was dedicated by the Ancients to Minerva.
He sat down to put his fins on and took the Halogen lamp Mori passed to him looping its cord round his left wrist.
I still have mine boot into the white-on-black teletype screen however, as a computational memento mori.
Although Caroline told her not to be superstitious, she herself was somewhat troubled by those memento mori.
But the modem memento mori is the insurance agent, with his pencils, and whenever I see one I mutter through the General Confession, just in case.
Maybe it was once his dog, and it died, so he wanted to keep the picture as a -memento mori-.