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Sugar maple   /ʃˈʊgər mˈeɪpəl/   Listen
Sugar maple

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: Acer saccharum, rock maple.






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"Sugar maple" Quotes from Famous Books



... we began to ascend the mountain, passing, first, through a grand sugar maple wood, which bore the marks of the augur, then a denser forest, which gradually became dwarfed, till there were no trees whatever. We at length pitched our tent on the summit. It is but nineteen hundred feet above the village of Princeton, ...
— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau

... arrows, using the sinews of the deer, or fresh thongs of leather, for bow-strings; and when they could not get game to eat, they boiled the inner bark of the slippery elm to jelly, or birch bark, and drank the sap of the sugar maple when they could get no water but melted snow only, which is unwholesome: at last they even boiled ...
— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill



Words linked to "Sugar maple" :   maple



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