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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers;
[syn: leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark, Dirca palustris]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Dirca palustris n 1: deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers [syn: leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark, Dirca palustris]