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leatherwood definition

☆ leather·wood (-wo̵od′)

noun

a small North American tree (Dirca palustris) of the mezereum family, with a tough, flexible bark used by the Indians for making rope

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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