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moosewood†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a small maple, Acer pensylvanicum, found in central and eastern Canada.
See: striped maple
Quotations
1822
Also . . . the red maple and the striped maple, known as the moose- wood of Canada.
1917
The buds and twigs provide winter food for deer and moose, and the latter eat the leaves in summer, hence the names moosewood and moose maple
1924
The Striped Maple of the east and the Vine Maple of the west are scarcely more than shrubs. The former is also known as the Goosefoot Maple, or Moosewood.
2n.
a small tree or shrub, Dirca palustris, having tough, pliant bark.
See: leatherwood
Quotations
1830
Leatherwood, Moosewood, Bois de pelon. A deciduous shrub of four or five feet in height, with light gray bark; and leaves oval, entire, alternate, on long footstalks.
1852
. . . these he bound on with strips of the leathery bark of the moose-wood.
1933
The under-growth consisted of . . . moosewood, dogwood. . . .