box elder
a North American maple, Acer negundo, having light gray-brown bark, pinnate, coarsely toothed leaves, and dry, winged fruit, cultivated as a shade tree, and yielding a light, soft wood used in making furniture, woodenware, etc.
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Louder and fiercer roared the box elder, lashing its banks with foam.
Warrior Gap | Charles KingWe climbed the trees and cut our names, we sucked the sap of the box elder and squashed poke berries for war paint.
Bill's School and Mine | William Suddards FranklinThere are moisture and shade where the hospital stands, and a clump of box-elder trees is a boon to the convalescents there.
The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories | Mary Hallock FooteWe marched twenty-five and three-quarter miles, and encamped near box elder Creek.
Fine timber cultures of black walnut, maple, box elder, and cottonwood.
To and Through Nebraska | Frances I. Sims Fulton
British Dictionary definitions for box elder
a medium-sized fast-growing widely cultivated North American maple, Acer negundo, which has compound leaves with lobed leaflets: Also called: ash-leaved maple
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