Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanicum, thus named because used by boys to make whistles, the bark easily separating from a section of the stem in Spring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See
maple .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
moosewood , orstriped maple .
Etymologies
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whistle + wood
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