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sugar maple
noun
- any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
sugar maple
noun
- a North American maple tree, Acer saccharum, that is grown as a source of sugar, which is extracted from the sap, and for its hard wood
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Other Words From
- sugar-maple adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sugar maple1
An Americanism dating back to 1725–35
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Example Sentences
The occurrence of the sugar maple adds another element of Indian subsistence.
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At last the trail lay over a slope overlooking a little cove, where there stood a large sugar-maple.
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Our sugar maple is less striking and beautiful in the bud, but the flowers are more graceful and fringelike.
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Frank and his brother had both heard of the famous sugar-maple, though neither of them had ever seen it.
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Nothing was heard for some moments but cries of joy, mingled with the words ‘sugar’ and ‘sugar-maple.’
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