striped maple
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of striped maple
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
Example Sentences
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Among a small flock of songbirds, a black-throated blue warbler ate a green caterpillar from a striped maple.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2016
It then crosses Jordan Stream on a wooden bridge and wends through stands of cedar and striped maple on a graded gravel path.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2014
For the most part his food consists of leaves and tender twigs of young trees, such as striped maple, aspen, birch, hemlock, alder and willow.
From The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
Where the striped maple is indigenous, it is one of the first productions that announces the approach of spring.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
Once the brute leader miscalculated the space between a striped maple and a pignut hickory; for a moment was caught and held in a vise-like grip.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
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