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wicopy|ˈwɪkəpɪ|
Also 8 wickopick, 9 wickopy, wickaby, wickup, wikop, wicup.
[ad. American Indian (Cree wikupiy, etc.).]
a. The leatherwood or moosewood of N. America, Dirca palustris; also, the basswood or American linden, Tilia americana.
b. An American name for species of willow-herb (Epilobium): distinctively Indian wicopy or herb wicopy.
1778J. Carver Trav. N. Amer. xix. 499 The Wickopick or Suckwick appears to be a species of the white wood,..distinguished..by a peculiar quality in the bark, which when pounded and moistened..becomes..of the consistence..of size. 1837P. H. Gosse in Life (1890) 106 The tall wickup plants with which the ground was..covered. [note, Or ‘wickaby’, the leather-plant (Dirca palustris), a shrub common in the Canadian woods.] 1888Cornh. Mag. Oct. 373 He will be attracted by the whahoo and the wicopy. |