'Maple' definitions:
Definition of 'maple'
(from WordNet)
noun
Wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
noun
Any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
Definition of 'Maple'
From: GCIDE
- Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or {swamp maple} is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, {Acer dasycarpum}, having fruit wooly when young; the {striped maple}, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the {sycamore maple} is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is Acer platanoides. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Bird's-eye maple, Curled maple, varieties of the wood of the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
- Maple honey, Maple molasses, Maple syrup, or {Maple sirup}, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
- Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Maple'
- Curled maple,
- Maple Bluff,
- Maple Falls,
- Maple Glen,
- Maple Grove,
- Maple Heights,
- Maple Hill,
- Maple Lake,
- Maple Park,
- Maple Plain,
- Maple Rapids,
- Maple Ridge,
- Maple Valley,
- Maple honey,
- Maple molasses,
- Maple sirup,
- Maple sugar,
- Maple syrup,
- Norway maple,
- Red maple,
- Scarlet maple,
- Striped maple,
- Sugar maple,
- Swamp maple,
- dwarf maple,
- field maple,
- flowering maple,
- goosefoot maple,
- great maple,
- hedge maple,
- japanese maple,
- maple family,
- mountain maple,
- oregon maple,
- rock maple,
- scottish maple,
- silver maple,
- sycamore maple,
- vine maple,
- Maple Bluff, WI,
- Maple Falls, WA,
- Maple Glen, PA,
- Maple Grove, MN,
- Maple Heights, OH,
- Maple Heights, WA,
- Maple Hill, KS,
- Maple Lake, MN,
- Maple Park, IL,
- Maple Plain, MN,
- Maple Rapids, MI,
- Maple Ridge, OH,
- Maple Valley, WA,
- full moon maple,
- maple-leaf,
- maple-like,
- Bird's-eye maple,
- ash-leaved maple,
- big-leaf maple,
- maple syrup urine disease,
- maple-leaf begonia,
- maple-leaved bayur,
- pointed-leaf maple,
- rocky-mountain maple,
- Maple Heights-Lake Desire,
- Maple Heights-Lake Desire, WA