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Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
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leatherwood
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Leatherwood may refer to: Cyrilla , a plant genus of tropical to warm temperate Americas Dirca , a plant genus of temperate North America Eucryphia lucida , a plant species of Tasmania Leatherwood Plantation , a Virginia plantation once owned by Patrick ...
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n. shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange-crimson foliage [syn: cyrilla , white titi , Cyrilla racemiflora ] deciduous shrub of eastern North America having ...
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n. 1 A deciduous shrub, of the genus ''Dirca'', that has leathery bark 2 A subalpine shrub or small tree found only in New Zealand, (taxlink Olearia colensoi species noshow=1)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leatherwood \Leath"er*wood`\, 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 . --Gray.
Usage examples of leatherwood.
When the hunters tired of fishing, and when they wearied of crossing the sand-dunes and the glaring, shimmering beachglaring and shimmering on every fine day of summer-to poke off the mussels and spear the butterfish and groper, they pushed through the Ceratopetalums and the burrawangs, and, following the tortuous bed of the principal creek amid the ferns and the moss and the vines and the myrtles, gradually ascending, they entered the sub-tropical patch where the ferns were huge and lank and staghorns clustered on rocks and trees, and the beautiful Dendrobium clung, and the supplejacks and leatherwoods and bangalow palms ran up in slender height, and that pretty massive parasite-the wild fig-made its umbrageous shade, as has been written.