Putting my finger on it, with a little hesitation, I found that it was a piece of dead moosewood which the Indian had cut off in a slanting direction the evening before.
"Canoeing in the wilderness"
Henry David Thoreau
In April and May they occasionally visit the flowers of moosewood, and later in the season have been observed upon the blossoms of the common milkweed.
"Butterflies Worth Knowing"
Clarence M. Weed
Think how my eyes flashed, and my wife's, as, struggling though a wilderness of moosewood, we came out one afternoon on this front of yellow clay!
"The-Brick-Moon-and-Other-Stories"
Hale, Edward Everett