sugar tree

American  

noun

Chiefly South Midland U.S.

1. a sugar maple.

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Etymology

Origin of sugar tree

An Americanism dating back to 1695–1705

Example Sentences

There stood in the barn yard a large and tall sugar tree with limbs within six or eight feet of the ground.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 1 January, 1897 by Various

The sugar tree yields a kind of sap or juice, which by boiling is made into sugar.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

I had a sugar tree in my yard, which bloomed and bore seed which did not fall off through the summer.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various

The timber consists of oaks of various species, poplar, ash, walnut, cherry, elm, sugar tree, buckeye, hickory, some beech, sassafras, lime, honey locust, with some cotton wood, sycamore, hackberry and mulberry on the bottom lands.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

Soil on the West Fork, sandy; much timber,—an extensive tract of sugar tree; some prairies.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason