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ˈsugar-ˌmaple
a. The North American tree Acer saccharinum, which yields maple-sugar. Also, the light-coloured wood of this tree.
1731P. Miller Gardeners Dict. s.v. Acer, There is another Sort of Maple, which is very common in Virginia, and is known by the name of the Sugar Maple. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Maple, The sugar maple..grows to sixty or eighty foot high. 1773W. Lewis tr. Neumann's Chem. Wks. (ed. 2) II. 72 note, A kind of Sugar is prepared from the juice which issues upon wounding or boring certain species of the maple-tree, one of which is named from hence the Sugar-maple. 1851E. Forbes Veg. World in Art Jrnl. Ill. Catal. p. vii, The wood of the sugar maple of Canada is the bird's-eye and also curled maple of the cabinet-maker. 1868Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 198 The black sugar maple (Acer saccharinum, var. nigrum). 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 524/1. 1936 Wood Products Mar. 11/1 During recent years the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory..has investigated the weight and hardness of sugar maple. 1980Family Handyman Sept. 63/2 A cubic foot of poplar weighs 26 lbs. compared to 39 lbs. for a cubic foot of sugar maple.
b. attrib., as sugar-maple land, sugar-maple tree; sugar-maple borer (see quot. 1882).
1792Descr. Kentucky 54 The settlers upon the sugar-maple lands. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 63/1 By transplanting the sugar maple-tree into a garden,..the quantity of the sap might be increased. 1882Garden 27 May 370/3 The Sugar Maple borer (Glycobius speciosus), whose grubs are very injurious to Maples. |