wicopy

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an Algonquian term for "stringy bark"; compare Abenaki wigebi (“stringy inner bark (used as cordage)”), Ojibwe wiigob (“inner bark of a basswood”).

Noun

wicopy

  1. (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).

References
  • wicopy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • 1910, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, part 2, page 950
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