moosewood
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Origin of moosewood
Example Sentences
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The alders and moosewood are higher than your head; on every tiny knoll the fir balsams have gained a footing, and creep down, impenetrable, to the edge of the water.
From Fishing with a Worm by Perry, Bliss
In April and May they occasionally visit the flowers of moosewood, and later in the season have been observed upon the blossoms of the common milkweed.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
Addison, who had the axe, ran down the bank and with a few strokes cut a moosewood sapling, which we thrust out to Tom.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
They used to call it Moosewood Hill because of the abundance of moosewood around the foot of it.
From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving
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
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