Found 2 items, similar to moosewood.
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Definition: moosewood
moosewood
n 1: maple of eastern North America with striped bard and large
2-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn [syn:
moose-wood,
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,
moose-wood,
wicopy,
ropebark,
Dirca palustris]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: moosewood
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.
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Maple
\Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), 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.
Acer 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 maple or
swamp maple
is
Acer rubrum; the
silver maple,
Acer dasycarpum
, having fruit wooly when young; the
striped maple
,
Acer Pennsylvanium, called also
moosewood. The
common maple of Europe is
Acer campestre, the
sycamore maple
is
Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the
Norway maple is
Acer platanoides.
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Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
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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,
Maple syrup, or
Maple sirup
, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
by evaporation.
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Striped
\Striped\, a.
Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
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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.
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