- leatherwood
- basswood (sense )
- any of several species of willow herb, as fireweed
Origin of wicopy
from Eastern Algonquian: compare Abenaki wìg?bi, wìk?pi, inner bark, especially of basswood or leatherwoodwicopy
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wicopy
noun
pl. wic·o·pies See leatherwood.
Origin of wicopy
Eastern Abenaki wìkəpi inner bark used for cordageTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
- (US, Canada) Any of several trees, such as the leatherwood/moosewood (of the genus Dirca), the whitewood, or the American basswood/linden (of the genus Tilia).
Origin
From an Algonquian term for "stringy bark"; compare Abenaki wigebi (“stringy inner bark (used as cordage)"), Ojibwe wiigob (“inner bark of a basswood").
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