The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or swamp maple is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, Acer dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is Acer platanoides.
Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
Bird's-eye maple, Curled maple, varieties of the wood of the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
Maple honey, Maple molasses, Maple syrup, or Maple sirup, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation.
WordNet
n. a common North American maple tree; 5-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood [syn: Acer saccharinum]
Usage examples of "silver maple".
Light, already diffused by the clouds, ambled off the silver maple leaves outside and fell ashen in the room.
That silver maple was punky in the heartwood and would be no loss, but the young oak was sound--perhaps it could be moved.
That silver maple was punky in the heartwood and would be no loss, but the young oak was sound—.
That silver maple was punky in the heartwood and would be no loss, but the young oak was sound -- perhaps it could be moved.
That silver maple was punky in the heartwood and would be no loss, but the young oak was soundperhaps it could be moved.
Rudli's tract was already covered by a dense mixed forest consisting partly of sugar maple, red maple, and silver maple, the first of which grow at least as large and as fast as any European maple.
At the top of the hill overlooking his valley he paused, then leaned against a silver maple to watch the activities below.
Some distance behind her and near the west shore, she saw a larger tree riding the current, a big silver maple floating higher in the water than the oak, and it seemed to her she could intercept it if she swam hard.
Paul laid the small gray body gently down at the foot of the silver maple and smoothed its rumpled fur.
The colonel stiffened his spine still further as Zainal used his appropriate rank, having noticed the silver maple leaf on his collar.