单词 | maple |
释义 | maple[ mey-puhl ] / ˈmeɪ pəl / nounany of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer, species of which are grown as shade or ornamental trees, for timber, or for sap.Compare maple family. the wood of any such tree. the flavor of maple syrup or maple sugar. Bowling Slang. pin (def. 12). Origin of maplebefore 900; Middle English mapel,Old English mapul-, in mapultrēow, mapulder maple tree, cognate with Old Saxon mapulder OTHER WORDS FROM maplema·ple·like, adjectiveWords nearby maplemao-tai, Mao Tse-tung, Mao Zedong, map, mapau, maple, maple butter, maple family, Maple Grove, Maple Heights, maple honey Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for mapleBritish Dictionary definitions for maplemaple / (ˈmeɪpəl) / nounany tree or shrub of the N temperate genus Acer, having winged seeds borne in pairs and lobed leaves: family Aceraceae the hard close-grained wood of any of these trees, used for furniture and flooring the flavour of the sap of the sugar maple See also sugar maple, silver maple, Norway maple, sycamore Word Origin for mapleC14: from Old English mapel-, as in mapeltrēow maple tree Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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