striped maple

American  

noun

1. a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.

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Etymology

Origin of striped maple

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

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Example Sentences

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striped maple

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

Bark gives the names to shagbark hickory, striped maple, and naked wood.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

Then, where the beeches dwindle until adult trees are only knee-high, there begins a sub-arctic zone of black spruce, balsam, striped maple, aspen and the “Peruvian” or red cherry.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

He picked for Mrs. Du Plessis, whom he established under the shade of a straggling striped maple of tender growth.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

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