Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The leather wood, Dirca palustris.
  • noun The striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanicum. See maple.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).
  • noun Leatherwood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
  • noun Hobblebush, Viburnum lantanoides.
  • noun Letherwood (genus Dirca or specifically Dirca palustris)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn
  • noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
  • noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
  • noun maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn

Etymologies

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moose +‎ wood

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Examples

  • This reminds me of a recipe for something called simple cake, or simple chocolate cake (from a moosewood cookbook?) ... uses a similar technique, ingredient list and vinegar reaction.

    Are you familiar with wacky cake? | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • Sustainable is Good | Where design, lifestyle and packaging meet: moosewood organic

    moosewood organic 2007

  • Soon it would be the cedars and the pines and the moosewood, some of which are already nibbling away at the edges, and these in time would be followed by the chestnut oaks and red maples and tupelos and hickories.

    Restoring Good Order to a Disturbed Land: Introductory Thoughts 2008

  • Links to this post my recipe saturday offering spanakopita i have used this recipe, taken from the moosewood cookbook, since 1981.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Annie 2006

  • Jacob went along the brook and obtained a quantity of bark from the moosewood, (_Dirca palustris_,) of which he made a strong cord, long enough to reach from the pen to the house.

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

  • The commonest member of the order is the moosewood (_Dirca_) (Fig.  113, _A_), belonging to the first of the three families

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

  • The moosewood bride is glowing, all her curls awave,

    Path Flower and Other Verses Olive Tilford Dargan 1918

  • The alders and moosewood are higher than your head; on every tiny knoll the fir balsams have gained a footing, and creep down, impenetrable, to the edge of the water.

    Fishing with a Worm Bliss Perry 1907

  • Think how my eyes flashed, and my wife's, as, struggling though a wilderness of moosewood, we came out one afternoon on this front of yellow clay!

    The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 1899

  • Think how my eyes flashed, and my wife's, as, struggling though a wilderness of moosewood, we came out one afternoon on this front of yellow clay!

    The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 1899

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