Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An eastern North American maple tree (Acer saccharum) having sap that is the source of maple syrup and maple sugar and variously grained hard wood used in cabinetmaking.
- n. The wood of this tree. Also called hard maple, rock maple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A North American hardwood, Acer saccharum, famed as the source of maple sugar and maple flavoring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. the rock maple (Acer saccharinum). See Maple.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See maple and Acer (with cut).
- n. See maple.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. 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
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Examples
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The sugar-maples, unlike many other flowering trees, do not blossom young; the locusts, amelanchiers, fruit trees generally, etc., blossom when mere shrubs three or four feet high; but the sugar maple and the scarlet maple are good-sized trees before they flower.
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But the glossy leaves of the maple are more numerous than any others, if we include the whole family, and with the exception of the western or ash-leaved maple, they all grow here, from the fine sugar maple to the dwarf mountain maple: including them all, then, perhaps they number two for one of any other deciduous tree found here.
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The young buds are coming out beautifully; the tufts of scarlet flowers on the soft maples are now daintily tipped with the tender green of the leaf-buds in their midst, and the long green flowers of the sugar maple have come out on many trees; yesterday, there were none to be seen.
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