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murrey

/ˈmʌɹi/

murrey noun: the mulberry fruit.

Noun

murrey (countable and uncountable, plural murreys)

  1. The mulberry fruit.
  2. A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).

Adjective

murrey (not comparable)

  1. Of 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

Proper noun capitalized: Murrey

Murrey (plural Murreys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of murrey

Noun
pluralmurreys
Proper noun
pluralMurreys

Origin of murrey

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”).

Words that rhyme with murrey

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Questions about murrey

What does murrey mean?
Murrey means the mulberry fruit.
What part of speech is murrey?
Murrey can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce murrey?
Murrey is pronounced /ˈmʌɹi/.
What is the plural of murrey?
The plural of murrey is murreys.

Words near murrey in the dictionary

  1. murrelets
  2. Murrell
  3. murren
  4. Murrengenburg
  5. murres
  6. murrey
  7. murreys
  8. murrha
  9. murrhas
  10. murrhine
  11. murrhines

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