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  • noun The sugar maple, Acer saccharum.

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  • noun maple of eastern and central North America having three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and hard close-grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly-grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies

Etymologies

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

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