leatherwood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    white titi; Cyrilla racemiflora; cyrilla.
  2. noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
    moose-wood; ropebark; moosewood; Dirca palustris; wicopy.

WordNet

Leath"er*wood` noun
Definitions
  1. (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. Gray.

Webster 1913