sugar tree

American  

noun

Chiefly South Midland U.S.

1. a sugar maple.

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Etymology

Origin of sugar tree

An Americanism dating back to 1695–1705

Example Sentences

“A good sugar tree, for years and years. I’ve tapped it every season until this last one, for at least thirty years. We used to boil the sap right over there—had a long oven and one big pan. You can even see the old stones where the oven was.”

From Literature

Deckhand Tommy Kelly, 36, from rural Sugar Tree, Tenn., feels safer that way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just about anyone who has raced in the Southeast has great memories of the competition bred by the racers bouncing week to week between Rolling Hills, Lake Sugar Tree, Devil's Ridge, Montrose, Secession MX, and Metrolina Park.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sugar tree yields a kind of sap or juice, which by boiling is made into sugar.

From Project Gutenberg

There stood in the barn yard a large and tall sugar tree with limbs within six or eight feet of the ground.

From Project Gutenberg