rock maple
Americannoun
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
Is it yon ball of black, at the foot of the rock maple, that you mean?
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
Other common names: The sugar maple is sometimes called rock maple or hard maple.
From Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison
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