Norway maple

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noun

a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.

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Origin of Norway maple

First recorded in 1790–1800

Words nearby Norway maple

Norw., Norwalk, Norwalk virus, Norway, Norway lobster, Norway maple, Norway pine, Norway rat, Norway spruce, Norwegian, Norwegian buhund

How to use Norway maple in a sentence

“Treat every crime as if the victim were your mother,” Maple would say.
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Best European countries for gays: Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway.
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Finland, Sweden and Norway have asked to recall those specific batches which is what we are doing.
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Thanks to Israeli lawyers and NGOs, he was granted asylum in a small town in Norway, population 20,000.
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Several European countries, including the Sweden and Norway, have banned the practice when the child in question is under 12.
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As they drove up under the maple-trees before the low iron gate, he said, Has this year been a happy year to you?
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
I have known you, known you well, for forty years, and a better man by land or sea is not to be found in all Norway.
Skipper Worse|Alexander Lange Kielland
As she passed from under the black pall of the Norway spruces she fancied she saw two figures in the shade about the duck-pond.
Summer|Edith Wharton
The Ash, of course, thought he had as much right to stand there as the Maple, and he said he would not stir a limb.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children|Mabel Powers
They bent their heads so low and close to listen, that an arm of the Maple slipped through an arm of the Ash.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children|Mabel Powers

British Dictionary definitions for Norway maple

Norway maple

noun

a large Eurasian maple tree, Acer platanoides, with broad five-lobed pale green leaves

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