moosewood
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Origin of moosewood
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.
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)
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
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
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
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