water maple
chiefly North American
noun
Any of various maples typically found growing near water, especially (in early use) the ash-leafed maple (or box elder), Acer negundo, and (in later use) the red maple, A. rubrum, and the silver maple, A. saccharinum.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Andrew Ellicott (1754–1820).
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