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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Frederick Webb Hodge, editor (1910), Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, part 2, page 950

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