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Definition of Great maple
1. Noun. Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Maple
Literary usage of Great maple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General by James Brown (1861)
"There are many species of maple—nineteen or twenty—but the only ones I think it
worthy to attend to in a work of this kind are, 1st, the great maple or ..."
2. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"Nor unnoticed pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and,
ere autumn yet Have changed the woods." COWPER. THE great maple-tree was ..."
3. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"... SYCAMORE, or great maple. — ACER PSEUDO-PLATANUS. ... THE great maple-tree
was called, in Greek, o?, ..."
4. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"... great maple, or SCOTS PLANE, Acer Pseudo-platanus L. Specific Character.—Leaves
cordate, smooth, with 5 ..."
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