3. A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a
morgue.
Mor"tu*a*ry (?), a. [L. mortuarius, fr. mortuus dead: cf. F. mortuaire.
See Mortal.] Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
Mortuary urn, an urn for holding the ashes of the dead.
||Mor"u*la (?), n.; pl. Morulæ (#). [NL., dim. of L. morum a mulberry.]
||(Biol.) The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by
||the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its
||development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and
||blastosphere. See Segmentation.
Mor`u*la"tion (?), n. (Biol.) The process of cleavage, or segmentation,
of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.
||Mo"rus (?), n. [L., mulberry tree. See Mulberry.] (Bot.) A genus of
||trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See
||Mulberry.
Morus alba is the white mulberry, a native of India or China, the
leaves of which are extensively used for feeding silkworms, for which
it furnishes the chief food. -- Morus multicaulis, the many-stemmed or
Chinese mulberry, is only a form of white mulberry, preferred on
account of its more abundant leaves. -- Morus nigra, the black
mulberry, produces a dark-colored fruit, of an agreeable flavor.
Mor"we (?), n. See Morrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.