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Webster 1913 Edition
Maple
Ma′ple
(mā′p’l)
, Noun.
[AS.
mapolder
, mapulder
, mapol
; akin to Icel. möpurr
; 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
. ☞ Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
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.