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noun
a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
a commercial variety of such syrup, often mixed with cane sugar or some other sweetening agent.
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Origin of maple syrup

First recorded in 1840–50
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maple syrup

noun
a very sweet syrup made from the sap of the sugar maple
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