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

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