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  • noun A grove of maple trees, making reference to the sugary maple sap.

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Examples

  • I've walked through a sugarbush, listening to leaves crunch and mud slurp, smelling spring

    Archive 2009-03-01 susan 2009

  • I've walked through a sugarbush, listening to leaves crunch and mud slurp, smelling spring

    What I've been doing lately susan 2009

  • This includes typical bush veld species such as grass veld sugarbush Protea caffra and false hookthorn Acacia hereroensis; also bush willow Combretum spp and red ivory Berchemia zeyheri, which are commoner hundreds of kilometers away.

    Vredefort Dome, South Africa 2009

  • We did have sugarbush tours. ah, those canadian childhoods.

    Happy Canada Day Michele 2005

  • Did you have the sugarbush school trips when you were little?

    Happy Canada Day Michele 2005

  • I helped for a day in a sugarbush collecting sap and watching it boil down.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Herrick Kimball 2005

  • I helped for a day in a sugarbush collecting sap and watching it boil down.

    The Grassroots Project in Vermont Herrick Kimball 2005

  • The meeting on Monday quickly adopted proposals for either the downlisting or upgrading of 32 species, from the Argentinian population of the broad-snouted caiman, a relative of the crocodile, and the pearly mussels in the United States, to the Java sparrow and two rare South Africa trees, the Swartland sugarbush and the marsh rose.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • It would take us through virgin stands of maples and Eastern Hemlock, about 40 acres of untouched sugarbush once owned by the Nourse family, to a historic log cabin deep in the forest that is still used today to make maple syrup.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Hart gave us a map of that area and told us to look for the sugarbush trail.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

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  • see protea

    August 4, 2009