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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The hard, heavy wood of any of several maples, especially a sugar maple.

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  • noun The sugar maple, Acer saccharum.

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From the hardness of its wood relative to the wood of other maples.

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