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DIRCA PALUSTRIS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
Synonyms:
Dirca palustris; leatherwood; moose-wood; moosewood; ropebark; wicopy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Dirca palustris" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Dirca palustris" is a member of...):
Dirca; genus Dirca (deciduous shrub of North America: leatherwood)