moosewood
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Origin of moosewood
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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 Clarence M. Weed
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 C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
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 Isabella Strange Trotter
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 Irving Bacheller
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 Edward Everett Hale
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