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Definition of Sugar maple
1. Noun. Maple of eastern and central North America having three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and hard close-grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly-grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies.
Definition of Sugar maple
1. Noun. A North American hardwood, ''Acer saccharum'', famed as the source of maple sugar and maple flavoring. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sugar Maple
Literary usage of Sugar maple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The second beetle mentioned is known as the sugar maple borer. _ Consult
Bailey, <Standard Cyclopaedia of Horticulture* (New York). ..."
2. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"302, nlso Bl. sugar maple, pg. 304, scarcely east of long. 73° south to n. Ala.
Miss, and Ark., also Red Maple, pg. 308. east only to NS west to Daks, ..."
3. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"The sugar maple is rich in potash, furnishing a large proportion of this ...
In the Eastern States of North America the sugar maple is regarded as the best ..."
4. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1911)
"... the chief examples of which are cane-sugar (sucrose), beet-sugar, maple-sugar,
malt-sugar (maltose), and milk- sugar (lactose) ; (2) the glucoses, ..."
5. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"In the eastern states of North America the sugar maple is regarded as the best
tree for shade- avenues. Numerous other Maples exist, among which as the ..."
6. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1917)
"... the chief examples of which are cane-sugar (sucrose), beet-sugar, maple-sugar,
malt-sugar (maltose), and milk- sugar (lactose); (2) the glucoses, ..."
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