单词 | sugar maple |
释义 | sugar maplen. The North American tree Acer saccharinum, which yields maple-sugar. Also, the light-coloured wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun] maple treeOE maplec1385 plane tree1562 great maple1597 sycamore-tree1597 sycamore1598 sugar-tree1705 sugar maple1731 red maple1767 scarlet maple1768 rock maple1774 white maple1774 silk wood1775 moosewood1778 mountain maple1785 box elder1787 acer1793 sycamore maple1796 mock plane1797 Montpellier maple1797 water maple1803 soft maple1806 sugar-wood1809 swamp maple1810 low maple1813 maple bush1821 Neapolitan maple1833 snake-bark1838 moose-maple1839 sap-tree1843 Manitoba maple1887 Japanese maple1898 curly maple1909 Queensland maple1915 paperbark maple1927 Amur maple1934 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > maple > types of peacock's tail1664 sugar maple1731 curled maple1778 bird's eye maple1793 soft maple1806 Queensland maple1915 tiger maple1961 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. 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. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Maple The sugar maple..grows to sixty or eighty foot high. 1773 W. Lewis in tr. C. Neumann 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. 1851 E. Forbes Veg. World in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. vii The wood of the sugar maple of Canada is the bird's-eye and also curled maple of the cabinet-maker. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 198 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The black sugar maple (Acer saccharinum, var. nigrum). 1883 Encycl. 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. 1980 Family Handyman Sept. 63/2 A cubic foot of poplar weighs 26 lbs. compared to 39 lbs. for a cubic foot of sugar maple. Compounds attributive, as sugar-maple land, sugar-maple tree; sugar-maple borer n. (see quot. 1882). ΚΠ 1792 Descr. Kentucky 54 The settlers upon the sugar-maple lands. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 63/1 By transplanting the sugar maple-tree into a garden,..the quantity of the sap might be increased. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 246 The sugar and silver maple, Acer saccharinum, and A. dasycarpon. 1882 Garden 27 May 370/3 The Sugar Maple borer (Glycobius speciosus), whose grubs are very injurious to Maples. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1731 |
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