Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The leatherwood, Dirca palustris.
  • noun One of the willow-herbs, as Epilobium angustifolium, E. lineare, and perhaps other species: distinguished as Indian or herb wicopy. See willow-herb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) See leatherwood.

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  • noun US, Canada Any of several trees, such as the leatherwood/moosewood (of the genus Dirca), the whitewood, or the American basswood/linden (of the genus Tilia).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Eastern Abenaki wìkəpi, inner bark used for cordage.]

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From an Algonquian term for "stringy bark"; compare Abenaki wigebi ("stringy inner bark (used as cordage)"), Ojibwe wiigob ("inner bark of a basswood").

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