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MOOSE-WOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
Synonyms:
Dirca palustris; leatherwood; moose-wood; moosewood; ropebark; wicopy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("moose-wood" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("moose-wood" is a member of...):
Dirca; genus Dirca (deciduous shrub of North America: leatherwood)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn
Synonyms:
Acer pennsylvanicum; goosefoot maple; moose-wood; moosewood; striped dogwood; striped maple
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("moose-wood" is a kind of...):
maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)
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