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leatherleaf saxifrage |
leatherleaf wood fern |
leatherlike |
leathern |
leatherneck |
leatherwood
| leatherwork
| leathery
| leathery grape fern
| leathery polypody
| leathery turtle
leatherwood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun leatherwood has 2 senses
- leatherwood(n = noun.plant) cyrilla, cyrilla racemiflora, white titi - shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage; Array is a member of genus cyrilla
- leatherwood(n = noun.plant) dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy - deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers; Array is a member of dirca, genus dirca
is a kind of bush, shrub
is a kind of bush, shrub
CIDE DICTIONARY
leatherwood, n.
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. [1913 Webster]
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