murrey

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/ˈmʌɹi/

noun

The mulberry fruit.

OriginMiddle English murrey ← Middle French moré ← Latin moratum →
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Meanings

murrey1

nounmurrey (countable and uncountable, plural murreys)

plural murreys

  1. countableuncountableThe mulberry fruit.
  2. countableuncountablegovernmentA tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).
adjectivemurrey (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf a mulberry colour.

    This coat continued to button, up the front, with nine buttons, various now in shape, and colour, but without exception of such exceptional size as to remain, once buttoned, buttoned. Aloft in the flowerhole brooded the remains of a factitious murrey chrysanthemum.

    1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Murrey2

proper nounMurrey (plural Murreys)

plural Murreys

  1. A surname.

Origin

  1. Latinmoratum
  2. Middle Frenchmoré
  3. Middle Englishmurrey
  4. Englishmurrey

From Middle English murrey, murreye, from Middle French moré, morée, from Latin moratum, morata, from neuter and feminine respectively of moratus (“mulberry-colored”), from morum (“mulberry”) + -atus (“-ate”).

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Translations

Bulgarian черничев
  • черничев (černičev)having a murrey colour
Catalan morat
  • moratred colour
Dutch murrey
  • murreyred colour
Finnish murrey
  • murreyred colour
German dunkelrotbraun
  • dunkelrotbraunhaving a murrey colour
Italian morato
  • moratohaving a murrey colour
Polish kolor purpurowoczerwony, purpurowoczerwony
  • kolor purpurowoczerwonyred colour
  • purpurowoczerwonyhaving a murrey colour
Portuguese morado
  • moradored colour
Spanish morado
  • moradored colour
Swedish mullbär, mullbärsfärg
  • mullbärred colour
  • mullbärsfärgred colour
  • mullbärsfärgadhaving a murrey colour

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with murrey

worrymurraysurreyhurryburymorayslurryflurrysurryscurrydurryFort McMurraywhurry
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Sounds the same

MorayMurrayMorayMurray

Anagrams

Rumery
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

“murrey.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/murrey. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “murrey,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/murrey.

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