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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

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Nouns denoting plants

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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