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rock maple

American  

noun

New England.
  1. the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.


Etymology

Origin of rock maple

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

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It was only a tree, a gnarled rock maple that stood for generations on the Tenney farm, and somehow survived what happened there on that September night in 1964.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

And not insignificantly, the gymnasium also had a floor of hard, or rock, maple.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2017

Murray, with 125 employees and a payroll of $4,500 had an annual production of 7,000,000 wooden heels for women's shoes, cut from rock maple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slow-growing, strong to resist damage by storm, clean in habit and beautiful the year round—this is our splendid rock maple.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

It is now the season of making sugar from the rock maple by the Indians and Canadians in this quarter.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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