Crossword clues for moosewood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or swamp maple is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, Acer dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is Acer platanoides.
Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
Bird's-eye maple, Curled maple, varieties of the wood of the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
Maple honey, Maple molasses, Maple syrup, or Maple sirup, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation.
Striped \Striped\, a. Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
Striped bass. (Zo["o]l.) See under Bass.
Striped maple (Bot.), a slender American tree ( Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood.
Striped mullet. (Zo["o]l.) See under Mullet, 2.
Striped snake (Zo["o]l.), the garter snake.
Striped squirrel (Zo["o]l.), the chipmunk.
Wiktionary
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))
WordNet
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 branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers [syn: leatherwood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark, Dirca palustris]
Wikipedia
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, known variously as leatherwood, moosewood, ropebark and wicopy
- Moosewood Cookbook, a cookbook authored by Mollie Katzen
- Moosewood Restaurant, a restaurant in Ithaca, New York, United States
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.