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n. - Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers; Maple of eastern North America with striped bard and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn.

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Usage examples (10)
  • They're powerful fond of moose-wood -- that's what you call mountain ash.
  • We here first noticed the moose-wood in fruit on the banks.
  • The moose-wood follows, with rose-colored buds and leaves; and the dog-wood, robed in the white of its own pure blossoms.
  • I stirred the soup by accident with a striped maple or moose-wood stick, which I had peeled, and he remarked that its bark was an emetic.
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