sugar maple

noun

sugar maple

noun

1

A North American hardwood tree, Acer saccharum, famed as the source of maple sugar and maple flavoring; the wood from such a tree.

Residents love this trail because of its wet coolness in the summer; its bright orange sugar maples in autumn, the contrast of green pines and white snow in the winter.2024 December 6, Mackenzie Farkus, Brooke Holder, Nate Iglehart, Jacob Posner, Sophie Ungerleider, “Record drought and blazes? The US Northeast awakens to new wildfire risks.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

Derived terms: black sugar maple, southern sugar maple, sugar-maple borer, western sugar maple
Related terms: maple sugar, sugar beet, sugarbush, sugar bush, sugar cane, sugaring

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