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LEATHERWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("leatherwood" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("leatherwood" is a member of...):

Dirca; genus Dirca (deciduous shrub of North America: leatherwood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cyrilla; Cyrilla racemiflora; leatherwood; white titi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("leatherwood" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("leatherwood" is a member of...):

genus Cyrilla (one species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit)

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