Mor

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The substance or skin of ripe fruit typically eaten fresh ; a suffix used in forming adjectives indicating quality or relation ; an abbreviation or code used in various contexts with distinct meanings
2. The outer layer or pulpy part of a fruit commonly consumed as food ; a linguistic ending creating descriptive words related to specific traits ; a shorthand notation or label applied in specialized fields for identification
3. The edible portion or peel of certain fruits enjoyed for nutrition ; a morpheme added to words to form adjectives denoting characteristics ; an acronym or symbol representing particular terms in different disciplines

Etymology: "Mor" is an English noun meaning the soft, pulpy flesh of a fruit, and it is one of the few English words that survives almost unchanged from the Old English "mora" or "mere" family, once used for a fruit or berry in general. Its ancestry is partly Germanic: the same root gave Old Norse and Dutch words for the mulberry and blackberry shrub, and Middle English "mor" was attached to the juicy part of fruit that the blackberry and mulberry bear. The word's older life is better documented than its modern one. In Middle English it referred to a soft, sweet mass, and by the sixteenth century the sense had narrowed to the pulp of a ripe fruit as opposed to its skin or stone. The noun is uncommon in everyday speech today, appearing mostly in dialect use, in culinary writing, and in descriptions of ripe produce.

Synonyms: peat, mire, bog, moors