leath·er·wood /ˈlɛðɚ/
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.
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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-crimson foliage [syn: cyrilla,
white titi, Cyrilla racemiflora]
2: deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough
flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow
flowers [syn: moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark,
Dirca palustris]