英语 (same as 柘) a thorny tree about 15 feet high, the leaves are used for feeding silkworms before the mulberry leaves are ready or when they are scarce, bark contains a yellow dye (interchangeable 蔗) the sugar cane
桑也。从木石聲。之夜切
(柘)柘桑也。三字句。各本無柘字。今補。山桑、柘桑皆桑之屬。古書竝言二者則曰桑柘。單言一者則曰桑、曰柘。柘亦曰柘桑。如淮南注烏號云柘桑其木堅勁、鳥歭其上是也。桑、柘相似而別。見胡氏通鑑釋文辨誤。從木。石聲。之夜切。古音在五部。漢志。琅邪郡
𤫊門高䂞山。䂞乃原之誤。水經汪可證。師古謂卽柘字。誤。
