leatherwood

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A deciduous shrub (Dirca palustris) of eastern North America, having tough flexible branches, pliable bark, and small yellow flowers. Also called moosewood, wicopy.
2. n. See titi¹.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A North American shrub of the genus Dirca, with very tough bark. See Dirca.
2. n. An Australian tree or shrub of the genus Ceratopetalum, belonging to the saxifrage family; also, its wood.
3. n. The Tasmanian pinkwood, Eucryphia Billardieri. See pinkwood, 2.
4. n. In the southeastern United States, Cyrilla racemiflora, a bush or small, wide-spreading tree of bottom-lands, with a hard wood and, at the base of the trunk, a spongy pliable bark, recommended for a styptic. More often called ironwood and sometimes he-huckleberry, burnwood, or burnwood-bark, and red or white titi. Sometimes called Southern leatherwood. See Cyrillaceæ.

Wiktionary

1. n. A deciduous shrub, of the genus Dirca, that has leathery bark

GNU Webster's 1913

1. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
2. n. shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage