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Webster 1913 Edition
Leatherwood
Leath′er-woodˊ
,Noun.
(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.
Definition 2024
leatherwood
leatherwood
English
Noun
leatherwood (plural leatherwoods)
- A deciduous shrub, of the genus Dirca, that has leathery bark
- A subalpine shrub or small tree found only in New Zealand, Olearia colensoi
Translations
subalpine New Zealand shrub
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