moraceous
English
Etymology
Latin morus (“mulberry tree”) + -aceous.
Adjective
moraceous (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the mulberry plants in the family Moraceae.
- 1978, Dard Hunter, Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft, page 26:
- The amatl paper was made from the inner bark of a moraceous tree; of these trees there are 55 genera and over 700 species, of wide distribution, nearly 600 being comprised in the single genus Ficus.
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Translations
of or pertaining to the genus Moraceae
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