Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See striped maple.
- n. See leatherwood.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The leather wood, Dirca palustris.
- n. The striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanicum. See maple.
Wiktionary
- n. Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
- n. Hobblebush, Viburnum lantanoides.
- n. Letherwood (genus Dirca or specifically Dirca palustris)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).
- n. Leatherwood.
WordNet 3.0
- n. maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn
- n. deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
- n. deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
- n. maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn
Etymologies
- moose + wood (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This reminds me of a recipe for something called simple cake, or simple chocolate cake (from a moosewood cookbook?) ... uses a similar technique, ingredient list and vinegar reaction.”
“Sustainable is Good | Where design, lifestyle and packaging meet: moosewood organic”
“Soon it would be the cedars and the pines and the moosewood, some of which are already nibbling away at the edges, and these in time would be followed by the chestnut oaks and red maples and tupelos and hickories.”
Restoring Good Order to a Disturbed Land: Introductory Thoughts
“Links to this post my recipe saturday offering spanakopita i have used this recipe, taken from the moosewood cookbook, since 1981.”
“Jacob went along the brook and obtained a quantity of bark from the moosewood, (_Dirca palustris_,) of which he made a strong cord, long enough to reach from the pen to the house.”
“The commonest member of the order is the moosewood (_Dirca_) (Fig. 113, _A_), belonging to the first of the three families”
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
“The moosewood bride is glowing, all her curls awave,”
“The alders and moosewood are higher than your head; on every tiny knoll the fir balsams have gained a footing, and creep down, impenetrable, to the edge of the water.”
“Think how my eyes flashed, and my wife's, as, struggling though a wilderness of moosewood, we came out one afternoon on this front of yellow clay!”
“Addison, who had the axe, ran down the bank and with a few strokes cut a moosewood sapling, which we thrust out to Tom.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moosewood’.
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stripes and bands
variegated armadillos and other asundry bands and stripes
fajada, raye, apar, fasciated, hemigalus, numbat, onyx, tatouay, tortrix, coquina, peba, myrmecobius and 113 more...
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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Behr Paint Colors
Names used for Behr Paints in spring of 2008. I'm curious to see if Behr gives the same colors different names in other years, so I've tagged each color with its Behr product number. It turns out t...
billowy clouds, soft lace, victorian pearl, china cup, soft muslin, bleached shell, belgian cream, chamois cloth, natural linen, popped corn, divine pleasure, vanilla delight and 283 more...
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See The Wood For The Trees
Tree names that end in -wood. Anything ending in -wood that only refers to the wood, eg. applewood, firewood, etc. shall not be planted in this garden.
moosewood, ironwood, blackwood, sandalwood, milkwood, redwood, agarwood, buttonwood, agilawood, eaglewood, camwood, lemonwood and 71 more...
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