Found 2 items, similar to sugar maple.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sugar maple
sugar maple
n : maple of eastern and central North America having 3- to
5-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 [syn:
rock maple,
Acer saccharum]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: sugar maple
Maple
\Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol;
akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G.
massholder.] (Bot.)
A tree of the genus
Acer, including about fifty species.
Acer saccharinum is the
rock maple, or
sugar maple,
from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in
great quantities, by evaporation; the
red maple or
swamp maple
is
Acer rubrum; the
silver maple,
Acer dasycarpum
, having fruit wooly when young; the
striped maple
,
Acer Pennsylvanium, called also
moosewood. The
common maple of Europe is
Acer campestre, the
sycamore maple
is
Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the
Norway maple is
Acer platanoides.
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Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
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Bird's-eye maple,
Curled maple, varieties of the wood of
the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is
produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
Maple honey,
Maple molasses,
Maple syrup, or
Maple sirup
, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
by evaporation.
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