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moosewood

American  
[moos-wood] / ˈmusˌwʊd /

Etymology

Origin of moosewood

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

Example Sentences

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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.

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

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

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

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