Sugar Maple Definition

noun
An E North American maple (Acer saccharum), valued for its hard wood and for its sap, which yields maple syrup and maple sugar.
Webster's New World
The hard, heavy wood of this tree, used in cabinetmaking and for furniture and flooring.
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Other Word Forms of Sugar Maple

Noun

Singular:
sugar maple
Plural:
sugar-maples

Sugar Maple Sentence Examples

  • This is derived from the sap of the rock or sugar maple (Ater saccharinum), a large tree growing in Canada and the United States.

  • In the Alleghanian Transition zone the chestnut, walnut, oaks and hickories of the South are interspersed among the beech, birch, hemlock and sugar maple of the North.

  • Maple sugar and syrup are made in those areas of the country where the sugar-maple tree flourishes.

  • In the spring the making of syrup and sugar from the sap of the sugar-maple is a typical industry.

  • Sugar was made from the sap by the French Canadians, but the production is only half as great as that from the sugar maple.

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