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moosewood |
5 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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