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

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swamp maple

Homespun clothing, dyed with the extract of black-walnut bark or wild indigo or swamp maple or elderberries, was worn by everybody.

From A School History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach

Lustrous is the new red of poison ivy and woodbine, of swamp maple and slowly budding oak.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

Other common names: The red maple is sometimes known as swamp maple.

From Studies of Trees by Levison, Jacob Joshua

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.