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Definition of Big-leaf maple
1. Noun. Maple of western North America having large 5-lobed leaves orange in autumn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Big-leaf Maple
Literary usage of Big-leaf maple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"big-leaf maple, often called California Maple or Oregon Maple, is a handsome
broad-crowned ... As an ornamental tree Big-Leaf Maple has been widely planted. ..."
2. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"In southern Oregon, west of the Cascade summits, the big-leaf maple is most abundant
... As an ornamental tree the big-leaf maple has been widely planted. ..."
3. Outdoor Heritage by Harold Child Bryant (1919)
"The leaves are so large that the tree is usually termed the big-leaf maple or
broad-leaf maple. The winged seeds are much like those of other maple trees, ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"big-leaf maple. Tree 20 to 80ft. high; juice in young herbage milky ; leaves
simple, roundish in outline, 4 to 12 in. broad, palmately parted into 5 broad ..."
5. With the Flowers and Trees in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1914)
"The other, however, Acer macrophyllum or big leaf maple, is one of the most
distinguished of trees, growing to a height of seventy-five or eighty feet, ..."
6. The Garden Book of California by Belle Sumner Angier (1906)
"The big-leaf maple, or, as it is frequently called, California maple, is a native
tree, perfectly adapted to all soils and conditions, and is a peculiarly ..."
7. Ten Years in Paradise: Leaves from a Society Reporter's Note-book by Mary Bowden Carroll (1903)
"... including the redwood, oak, box- elder, big leaf maple, laurel, sycamore,
willow, poplar, toyon, flowering ash, flowering dogwood, buckeye, madrone, ..."
8. Report by California Division of Forestry (1919)
"... shrub-like at the highest elevations. The wood, like that of red alder, is
light and coarse and has no economic value. Maple. big-leaf maple (Acer ..."
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