Noun: paper mulberry
- 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
"Traditional Pacific islanders made cloth from paper mulberry bark";
- Broussonetia papyrifera
Derived forms: paper mulberries
Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Part of: Broussonetia, genus Broussonetia
Encyclopedia: Paper mulberry