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Definition of Leatherwoods
1. leatherwood [n] - See also: leatherwood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leatherwoods
Literary usage of Leatherwoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"From leatherwoods to Dogwoods. if The twenty fifth order comprises eleven families
that are not represented in Minnesota and five that are. ..."
2. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"leatherwoods. The leatherwood is a shrub from two to six feet in height, not
uncommon along streams in woods and thickets throughout the greater part of the ..."
3. Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise by Thomas Washington Talley (1922)
"... An' on a Thursd'y night I went out to de woods, An' I cut me two big fine
tough leatherwoods. So on a Frid'y mornin' w'en she roll me 'er eyes, ..."
4. Editorials and Editorial-writing by Robert Wilson Neal (1921)
"... or leatherwoods, not, as I write, yet fully out. These little shrubs are native
to our damp woods from Canada to the Gulf and once had an economic value ..."
5. Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West by James Morton Callahan (1912)
"The census of 1790 shows three leatherwoods in Maryland, Samuel, Thomas and
William, all doubtless of the same family. Children of William and Rachel Hall: ..."
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