maple

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Up and down the high dome of the maple were a thousand balconies overlooking the meadow From its highest tier of a summer morning the notes of the bobolink came rushing off his lyre, and farther down the golden robin sounded his piccolo.

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  1. noun 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.
  2. noun The wood of any of these trees, especially the hard, close-grained wood of the sugar maple, often used for furniture and flooring.
  3. noun The flavor of the concentrated sap of the sugar maple.

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  • The Indians, to whom the rising of the sap in its capillary vessels in the rock-maple is the sign of a sort of carnival, are now in the midst of their season of sugar-making. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • The body is made of alder and the neck is maple, and it is considerably heavier than a Fender or Squier. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • Hand-made in the USA from cubes of walnut and hard-maple, these —  OhGizmo!
  • Ash and maple are among the more VOC-free trees, emitting only about 1 —  Climate Progress
  • The maple is a bit overwhelming, I might need to try it with some stronger meats to see if it complements them better then the turkey. —  RVABlogs
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  1. Middle English, from Old English mapul- (as in mapultrēo, maple tree).

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  1. from Middle English mapel, mapylle, mapul, from Anglo-Saxon *mapol, *mapul, *mœpel (= Icelandic möpurr), in comp. mapol-treów, mapultreów, maple-tree, mœpelhyrst, maple-grove, and in deriv. mapolder, mapulder, mapuldur, mabuldor, a maple-tree (a form extant in some place-names, as Mapplederham, Mappledurwell) (the p in these forms having apparently suffered an irreg. change from an orig. t), = Middle Low German masselter (-bōm) = Old High German mazzaltra, mazzoltra, mazaltra, Middle High German mazalter, mazolter, masholter, German massholder, also masseller (the syllable -der, Old High German -tra, being a formative, and not, as usually asserted, a corruption of Anglo-Saxon treów, English tree); ult. origin unknown.
 

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