Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of numerous deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer of the North Temperate Zone, having opposite, usually palmate leaves and long-winged fruits borne in pairs.
- n. The wood of any of these trees, especially the hard, close-grained wood of the sugar maple, often used for furniture and flooring.
- n. The flavor of the concentrated sap of the sugar maple.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tree of the genus Acer, natural order Sapindaceœ, peculiar to the northern temperate parts of the globe. The maples are often highly valuable, sometimes for their wood, in one or two cases for a sugar-product, and often as shade and ornamental trees. See
Acer . - n. The wood of this tree.
- Consisting or made of, or derived from, maple or the maple-tree.
- n. See mapple.
- n. In New Zealand, a common settlers' corruption of mapau.
- n. In Australia, Chariessa Moorei, the scrub silky oak (which see, under oak).
- n. The sugar-maple.
- n. The box-elder, Acer Negundo.
- n. The box-elder.
- n. The mountain-maple.
- n. The silver maple.
- n. The mountain-maple.
- n. The red maple: so called from its white wood. Compare shoe-peg maple.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or swamp maple is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, Acer dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is Acer platanoides.
WordNet 3.0
- n. wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
- n. any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
Etymologies
- Old English mapultrēow, from Proto-Germanic *mapulaz (compare Old Icelandic möpurr, Middle Low German mapeldorn, German Masseller, Maßholder), perhaps a blend of *masuraz 'knob; maple-tree' (compare Old Icelandic mösurr 'maple', Low German/German Maser 'knob, offshoot') and *apulaz 'apple' (see apple), from *masam 'lump, knob' (compare obsolete German Mase 'scar', modern Maser 'speck, measle'). More at measles. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English mapul- (as in mapultrēo, maple tree). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Other common names: The silver maple is sometimes known as _soft maple_ or _white maple_.”
“Other common names: The red maple is sometimes known as _swamp maple_.”
“Other common names: The sugar maple is sometimes called _rock maple_ or”
“Comparisons: The Norway maple is apt to be confused with the _sycamore maple_ (_Acer pseudoplatanus_), but differs from the latter in having a reddish bud instead of a green bud, and a close bark instead of a scaly bark.”
“_Rocky Sugar, Hard maple, Sugar tree_ 144-146 saccharinum, var. nigrum, T. and G. _Black maple_ 146, 147”
“_sugar maple borer_ and the _maple phenacoccus_, a sucking insect.”
“The Manitoba maple is a very shallow-rooted maple, so if it grows to full height a good stiff wind can blow it over; as a result, if you find one growing in your hard, you want to yank it before it gets too big!”
“Not only because I am from Canada and the maple is our national emblem, but also because maple trees are to be found in every country that had POWs on Taiwan – including Taiwan itself!”
“Quebec forbids the use of the word "maple," or of maple-leaf shapes or pictures, on any bottle that does not contain 100-per-cent pure maple syrup.”
“Syrup should be the consistency of thin maple syrup (it will thicken a bit more once it has cooled).”
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