silver maple
noun
1
: a common maple (Acer saccharinum) of eastern North America with deeply cut 5-lobed leaves that are light green above and silvery white below
2
: the hard close-grained but brittle light brown wood of the silver maple
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Interestingly, silver maple and box elder, also a member of the maple family, along with Eastern cottonwood, are also keystone plants, according to the NWF. 
Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022 For example, a silver maple sheds seeds in late spring, while white oaks drop acorns in late summer or early fall. Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022 Tewes said silver maple, tatarian maple and some oaks can’t draw nutrients out of Utah’s acidic soil. Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022 Currently 15 feet tall, the silver maple tree will have a permanent home in Battery Park City, in front of the museum. Julia Gergely, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2021 But that pounding the house took finally brought me around, and now the silver maple is coming down, piece by piece. Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021 Limbs as heavy as anvils are hammering to earth as the massive silver maple in the front yard is painstakingly deconstructed by a tireless team of arborists. Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021 Tree plantings included silver maple, box elder, swamp and black oak, and varieties of birch, cedar, and willow trees. BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021 The 20-acre Raymond Street Forest Preserve, created in 2003, has pockets of a floodplain forest along Poplar Creek, with large cottonwood, ash and silver maple trees growing there, Metanchuk said. Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2021 See More
Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022 For example, a silver maple sheds seeds in late spring, while white oaks drop acorns in late summer or early fall. Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022 Tewes said silver maple, tatarian maple and some oaks can’t draw nutrients out of Utah’s acidic soil. Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2022 Currently 15 feet tall, the silver maple tree will have a permanent home in Battery Park City, in front of the museum. Julia Gergely, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2021 But that pounding the house took finally brought me around, and now the silver maple is coming down, piece by piece. Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021 Limbs as heavy as anvils are hammering to earth as the massive silver maple in the front yard is painstakingly deconstructed by a tireless team of arborists. Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021 Tree plantings included silver maple, box elder, swamp and black oak, and varieties of birch, cedar, and willow trees. BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021 The 20-acre Raymond Street Forest Preserve, created in 2003, has pockets of a floodplain forest along Poplar Creek, with large cottonwood, ash and silver maple trees growing there, Metanchuk said. Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1765, in the meaning defined at sense 1