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noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
originFrom an Algonquian term for "stringy bark"; compare Abenaki wigebi (“stringy inner bark (used as cordage)”), Ojibwe wiigob (“inner bark of a basswood”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0