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moosewood † 

• 1 n. a small maple, Acer pensylvanicum, found in central and eastern Canada.

  See also: striped maple   

  • 1822  (1928)  Also . . . the red maple and the striped maple, known as the moose- wood of Canada.
  • 1917  (1956)  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.

• 2 n. a small tree or shrub, Dirca palustris, having tough, pliant bark.

  See also: leatherwood  

  • 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  (1881)  . . . these he bound on with strips of the leathery bark of the moose-wood.
  • 1933  The under-growth consisted of . . . moosewood, dogwood. . . .