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sugar tree
noun
, Chiefly South Midland U.S.
- a sugar maple.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sugar tree1
An Americanism dating back to 1695–1705
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Example Sentences
I had a sugar tree in my yard, which bloomed and bore seed which did not fall off through the summer.
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Soil on the West Fork, sandy; much timber,—an extensive tract of sugar tree; some prairies.
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The other glanced in the direction of the sugar-tree, raised his eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders, and returned to his fishing.
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But for the present these were intent upon the sugar-tree, and kept hurrying up the boy with the auger.
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His axe would flash and bite into a sugar-tree or sycamore, and down it would come.
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