Meanings
nounpaper mulberry (plural paper mulberries)
plural paper mulberries
- A tree in the mulberry family (Moraceae), Broussonetia papyrifera, with fibrous inner bark used to make paper and tapa cloth.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounshrubby Asiatic tree having bark (tapa) that resembles cloth; grown as a shade tree in Europe and America; male flowers are pendulous catkins and female are urn-shaped followed by small orange-red aggregate berries
Similar
Broussonetia papyrifera
Broader
angiospermous treeflowering tree
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan morera de paper
- morera de papertree
Chinese Mandarin 構 /构, 構樹 /构树
- 構 /构 (gòu)tree
- 構樹 /构树 (gòushù)tree
- 楮 (chǔ)tree
French mûrier à papier
- mûrier à papiertree
German Papiermaulbeerbaum
- Papiermaulbeerbaumtree
Hawaiian wauke
- wauketree
Japanese 梶, 梶の木
- 梶 (kaji)tree
- 梶の木 (kajinoki)tree
- 構 (kō)tree
Korean 닥나무
- 닥나무 (dangnamu)tree
Māori aute
- autetree
Spanish mahute
- mahutetree
Swedish pappersmullbärsträd
- pappersmullbärsträdtree
Thai กระสา
- กระสา (grà-sǎa)tree
Vietnamese dó, dướng
- dótree
- dướngtree
Cite this entry
APA
paper mulberry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paper%20mulberry
MLA
“paper mulberry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paper%20mulberry. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “paper mulberry,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paper%20mulberry.
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