Paper mulberry Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun shrubby 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
Broussonetia papyrifera.
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(Bot.) See under Mulberry.
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- a tree (
Broussonetia papyrifera ), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.
