wicopy
English
Alternative forms
- wickopy
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
- (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