In time Morett slipped into Moretta, and then-like Meier in the Madonna picture-into morus.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
"The mulberry-trees form the genus morus-for this was the name by which they were known to the ancient Greeks.
"The Boy Hunters"
Captain Mayne Reid
Their cloth, which is the principal manufacture, is made from the morus papyrifera; and doubtless in the same manner as at Otaheite and Tongataboo; for we bought some of the grooved sticks with which it is beaten.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr