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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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moosewood
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus Acer , including about fifty species. Acer saccharinum is the rock maple , or sugar maple ...
WordNet
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n. maple of eastern North America with striped bard and large 2-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn [syn: moose-wood , striped maple , striped dogwood , goosefoot maple , Acer pennsylvanicum ] deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 striped maple (''Acer pensylvanicum'') 2 hobblebush, (taxlink Viburnum lantanoides species noshow=1). 3 leatherwood (genus ''Dirca'' or specifically (taxlink Dirca palustris species noshow=1))
Wikipedia
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Moosewood may refer to: Acer pensylvanicum , a species of maple known variously as striped maple, moosewood and moose maple Viburnum lantanoides , a species of shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae Dirca , a genus of deciduous shrubs in the family Thymelaeaceae, ...
Usage examples of moosewood.
Spreading the top of a moosewood tree, Harry could glimpse a seaplane.
Harry simply stood and watched his rescuer push the canoe into the water, beneath an overhanging clump of moosewood and pine trees.
Harry pressed through the boughs of moosewood and stared toward the clearing in front of the cabin.
Manned by silent paddle strokes, it floated eastward and vanished beyond the clustering moosewood screen.
The leaves were beginning to turn, and some of the foliage was extremely beautiful, particularly that of the moosewood, the large leaf of which turns to a rich mulberry colour.
With flashlight blinks that seemed to lick out of the very ground, The Shadow showed the path to a clump of moosewood trees.