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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn [syn: moosewood, moose-wood, striped maple, striped dogwood, goosefoot maple, Acer pennsylvanicum]
2: deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers [syn: leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark, Dirca palustris]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Leatherwood Leath"er*wood`, n. (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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moosewood Moose"wood`, n. (Bot.) (a) The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum). (b) Leatherwood.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Maple Ma"ple, 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. A. 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 or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. 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, or Maple sirup, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses. Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation.