Hypertext Webster Gateway: "moosewood"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Leatherwood \Leath"er*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
A small branching shrub ({Dirca palustris}), with a white,
soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods
in the Northern United States; -- called also {moosewood},
and {wicopy}. --Gray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Moosewood \Moose"wood`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).
(b) Leatherwood.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Striped \Striped\, a.
Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
{Striped bass}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Bass}.
{Striped maple} (Bot.), a slender American tree ({Acer
Pennsylvanicum}) with finely striped bark. Called also
{striped dogwood}, and {moosewood}.
{Striped mullet}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Mullet}, 2.
{Striped snake} (Zo["o]l.), the garter snake.
{Striped squirrel} (Zo["o]l.), the chipmunk.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maple \Ma"ple\, n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel.
m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.]
(Bot.)
A tree of the genus {Acer}, including about fifty species.
{A. saccharinum} is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the
sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great
quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is {A.
rubrum}; the silver maple, {A. dasycarpum}, having fruit
wooly when young; the striped maple, {A. Pennsylvanium},
called also {moosewood}. The common maple of Europe is {A.
campestre}, the sycamore maple is {A. Pseudo-platanus}, and
the Norway maple is {A. platanoides}.
Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
{Bird's-eye maple}, {Curled maple}, varieties of the wood of
the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is
produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
{Maple honey}, {Maple molasses}, or {Maple sirup}, maple sap
boiled to the consistency of molasses.
{Maple sugar}, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
by evaporation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
moosewood
n 1: maple of eastern North America with striped bard and large
2-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn [syn: {striped
maple}, {striped dogwood}, {goosefoot maple}, {Acer
pennsylvanicum}]
2: deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough
flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow
flowers [syn: {leatherwood}, {wicopy}, {ropebark}, {Dirca
palustris}]
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