leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark, Dirca palustris
(noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wicopy
(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).
Source: Wiktionary
Wic"o*py, n. (Bot.)
Definition: See Leatherwood.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
