moose brush

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shrub, Cornus stolonifera, with conspicuous red stems, the inner bark of which was often used in the making of kinnikinik (def. 1).

Quotations

1948

He handed us a handful of knick-a-knick, which is the dried under-bark of a red willow we call moose brush.