They're powerful fond of moose-wood -- that's what you call mountain ash. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
We here first noticed the moose-wood in fruit on the banks. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
The moose-wood follows, with rose-colored buds and leaves; and the dog-wood, robed in the white of its own pure blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [Hyperion] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
I could see, here and there, the track of his former journeys: broken branches of witch-hazel and moose-wood, ferns trampled down, a faint trail across some deeper bed of moss. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Flower] Reference
The prevailing underwoods were: Dirca palustris (moose-wood), Acer spicatum (mountain maple), Viburnum lantanoides (hobble-bush), and frequently Taxus baccata, var. Cana-densis (American yew). From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
"moose-wood," by which this tree is known among the hunters. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
` moose-wood 'is common among the hunters and frontiers-men for reasons already given. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
Dirca palustris (moose-wood), common. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
The moose-wood, 1 a small tree of graceful, airy growth, and bearing the prettiest flowers of the tribe, to whose young shoots the moose is said to have been so partial; the mountain maple, a shrub growing in thick clumps with an upright flower, the scarlet maple, the silver, the sugar, and the black sugar maples, are all included among our trees. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
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