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), thewhitewood , or the Americanbasswood /linden (of the genusTilia ).
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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