leatherwood |
leatherwood | (n) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers, Syn. wicopy, moose-wood, Dirca palustris, ropebark, moosewood |
Leatherwood | n. (Bot.) 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 |