rock maple
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noun New England.
the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
Origin of rock maple
First recorded in 1765–75
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After this we spent a short time promenading around the rock-maple grove, if leafless trees can be called a grove.
Mind Amongst the SpindlesVarious
We had two heavy, though slender, rock-maple paddles, one of them of bird's-eye maple.
The Maine WoodsHenry David Thoreau
The first is in sap-time, when maple sugar is being made in the little shack on the borders of the rock-maple grove.
In the CatskillsJohn Burroughs