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 \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]