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Definition of Maple family
1. Noun. A family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Acer, Genus Acer, Dipteronia, Genus Dipteronia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maple Family
Literary usage of Maple family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"maple family. Trees or shrubs, with watery often saccharine sap, opposite simple
and palmately lobed (rarely entire) or pinnate leaves, and axillary or ..."
2. Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-life Among the Loggers by John S. Springer (1851)
"The maple family.— Number of Species. — Red Maple.—Unrivaled Beauty of American
Forests.—Rock Maple—Amount of Wood cut from one in Blanford. ..."
3. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"maple family. A family composed of two genera, only one of which is represented
in America. Genus ACER. A genus of about 100 species of trees and shrubs, ..."
4. Trees that Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the by Julia Ellen Rogers (1909)
"THE maple family If you meet a tree of good size, with slender branches, and
small buds set opposite upon the twigs, you may suspect it of being a maple. ..."
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