moosewood

American  

[moos-wood] / ˈmusˌwʊd /

noun

1. striped maple.

2. leatherwood.

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Etymology

Origin of moosewood

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80; moose + wood ¹

Example Sentences

Think how my eyes flashed, and my wife's, as, struggling though a wilderness of moosewood, we came out one afternoon on this front of yellow clay!

From The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Hale, Edward Everett

The leaves were beginning to turn, and some of the foliage was extremely beautiful, particularly that of the moosewood, the large leaf of which turns to a rich mulberry colour.

From First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 by Trotter, Isabella Strange

Putting my finger on it, with a little hesitation, I found that it was a piece of dead moosewood which the Indian had cut off in a slanting direction the evening before.

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David

Following these along, Eyebright made the discovery of a cubby,—a veritable cubby,—left by some child in a choice and hidden corner formed by three overlapping moosewood bushes.

From Eyebright A Story by Coolidge, Susan

With this I burnt a hole in the end of each board and fastened them to the front brace with withes of moosewood.

From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving