Definition of Maple

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Definition of Maple

Maple

A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. 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 or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.

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Maple Quotations

I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.
Rick Wakeman

With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.
Mats Sundin

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
John Leonard

I was so angry to realize I'm a Quebecois, with no past, no history, just two cans of maple syrup.
Jean Claude Lauzon

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.
John W. Dawson

Maple Translations

maple in Danish is ahorn
maple in Dutch is esdoorn, aak, ahorn
maple in German is Ahorn {m}
maple in Portuguese is bordo
maple in Spanish is arce

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