| 单词 | great maple |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat maple great maple n. now rare the sycamore, Acer pseudoplatanus; = sycamore n. 2. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1300 The great Maple, not rightly called the Sycomore tree..is a stranger in England. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects xxi. 134 Some plants and leaves, are not so tenacious..as the great Maple. 1776 W. Boutcher Treat. Forest-trees (new ed.) i. 35 There is no tree..is so proper to be planted by the sea, as the Great Maple. 1851 Mag. Hort. May 193 The Sycamore or Great Maple..is a handsome tree of tolerably quick growth. 1916 Jrnl. Ecol. 4 179 To the north is an older plantation, mainly of Great Maple. 1953 Times 23 Mar. 8/7 In Britain our sycamore or great maple (which is commonly a ‘plane tree’ in Scotland) appears to be the only species to have excited any inquiry or comment by its sugary sap. < as lemmas |
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