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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanicum, thus named because used by boys to make whistles, the bark easily separating from a section of the stem in Spring.

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

  • noun (Bot.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See maple.

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

  • noun The moosewood, or striped maple.

Etymologies

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whistle +‎ wood

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