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Definition of Maple-like
1. Adjective. Resembling maple. "Maplelike leaves"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maple-like
Literary usage of Maple-like
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Lva. long-stalked, often maple-like: Us. with naked 5-cleft calyx, 5 separate
obovate ... A. Leaves prominently lobed, mostly maple-like or vine-like. ..."
2. Reports Relating to the Project of Constructing a Railway and a Line of by New Brunswick House of Assembly, House of Assembly, New Brunswick (1847)
"Maple is in motion earlier in the spring than in the Sogar Maple. Like the Red
Maple,- it yields but half the product of the Sugar Maple from a given ..."
3. The Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre by Meredith P. Lillich (1998)
"Red ground, green stems forming a cross, with yellow maple-like leaves. Inventory no.
4. (Fig. 44B) — Debris of a fourth square colored panel, not described ..."
4. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"This variety is called bird's- eye maple. Like the curled maple, it is used for
inlaying mahogany. Bedsteads are made of it, and portable writing-desks, ..."
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