sugar maple
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.
Origin of sugar maple
1Other words from sugar maple
- sugar-maple, adjective
Words Nearby sugar maple
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How to use sugar maple in a sentence
On those roller coasters, I kept my glasses on, and the views of the surrounding Smoky Mountains, dotted with sugar maple trees and magnolias, were magnificent.
Have vaccine, will travel: How a road trip served as a needed jolt from the blahs at home | Kate Silver | May 21, 2021 | Washington PostWith sugar maples, you’ll need 10 gallons of sap to make one quart of syrup.
Make your own maple syrup without harming the trees | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | February 7, 2021 | Popular-ScienceKnow your maple syrup numbersA really friendly sugar maple tree may yield sap that is almost 5% sugar by volume.
Make your own maple syrup without harming the trees | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | February 7, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe sugar maple isn’t the only tree species that can provide us with tasty syrup.
Make your own maple syrup without harming the trees | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | February 7, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAfter sticking the axe many times into a sugar maple tree in early spring, his wife noticed the water running out of the trunk.
Make your own maple syrup without harming the trees | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | February 7, 2021 | Popular-Science
The occurrence of the sugar maple adds another element of Indian subsistence.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftAt last the trail lay over a slope overlooking a little cove, where there stood a large sugar-maple.
Red Hunters And the Animal People | Charles A. EastmanOur sugar maple is less striking and beautiful in the bud, but the flowers are more graceful and fringelike.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsFrank and his brother had both heard of the famous sugar-maple, though neither of them had ever seen it.
The Desert Home | Mayne ReidNothing was heard for some moments but cries of joy, mingled with the words ‘sugar’ and ‘sugar-maple.’
The Desert Home | Mayne Reid
British Dictionary definitions for sugar maple
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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