Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A grove of sugar maples used as a source of maple syrup or maple sugar. Also called sugar orchard.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as sugar-orchard.
- n. See Protea.
- n. A pretty, flowering shrub, Leucadendron melliferum, native to South Africa. Its flowers are surrounded by a large involucre, which contains a honey-like liquor.
Wiktionary
- n. An evergreen shrub found in south-western United States of America
- n. uncountable Forest dominated by sugar maples or other maples tapped for sugar
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See Sugar orchard.
WordNet 3.0
- n. evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with spikes of reddish yellow flowers and glandular hairy fruits
Etymologies
- sugar + bush (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The sugar bush lies near the groin of the old mountain, the “beech woods "over the eastern knee, and the Rundle Place, where now is Woodchuck Lodge, is on his skirts that look eastward.”
“It was in September, in the lot above the sugar bush ” cross-ploughing, to prepare the ground for rye.”
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Sugar
sugar, sugar cube, sugar of lead, The Sugarcubes, table sugar, sucrose, sugar cane, sugar beet, brown sugar, sugar alcohol, sugar of milk, sugar orchard and 129 more...
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reesetee Which one do you mean? Sugar bush, sap bush, or sugar orchard? Oct 14, 2007
chained_bear Really? Oh..... well, that's not how I first heard it, but OK! Oct 13, 2007
reesetee Or sugar orchard, yes? Oct 13, 2007
colleen Also called a sap bush in some parts. Oct 13, 2007
reesetee Pretty phrase. Oct 13, 2007
john A stand of sugar maples, used to make syrup. Oct 13, 2007