sugar maple
sugar maple Lexical Profile
• noun
North American A large deciduous tree native to the hardwood forests of eastern North America, renowned for its brilliant autumn foliage and sap that is boiled down to make maple syrup.
"Every spring, the family taps the sugar maples on their property to collect buckets of fresh sap."
North American The highly durable, dense wood of the sugar maple tree, valued for flooring, cabinetry, bowling alleys, and the construction of musical instruments.
"The gymnasium floor was constructed from premium sugar maple because of its resistance to heavy impacts."
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Word Origin & Etymology
A compound of 'sugar' and 'maple', named for the high sugar content of its sap, which has been harvested by Indigenous peoples of North America for centuries to produce syrup and sugar.
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