leatherwood

3 definitions found

leatherwood - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Leatherwood \Leath"er*wood`\, 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 moosewood,
     and wicopy. --Gray.
     [1913 Webster]

leatherwood - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  leatherwood
      n 1: shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West
           Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white
           flowers and orange and crimson foliage [syn: cyrilla,
           leatherwood, white titi, Cyrilla racemiflora]
      2: deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough
         flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
         [syn: leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy,
         ropebark, Dirca palustris]

leatherwood - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Leatherwood, KY
    Zip code(s): 41756