swamp maple

American  

noun

1. red maple.

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Etymology

Origin of swamp maple

An Americanism dating back to 1660–70

Example Sentences

A swamp maple grows at this stump as a back for my seat in this reception room of the jewel-weeds.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

The habitat by swamp maple, desert willow, and seaside alder.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

Again, the spring redness of the swamp maple is hardly less vivid than its mature coloring of the fall.

From Getting Acquainted with the Trees by McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace)

Here the cinnamon fern grows luxuriantly, while a few swamp maple saplings and mountain ash trees occur at intervals, and afford sufficient food to the moose.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The red maple, or swamp maple, Acer rubrum L., has leaves deeply lobed with the lobes sharply toothed.

From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.