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| box elder |
a North American maple tree with compound leaves and soft wood that is used in making furniture. |
| flame tree |
any of several trees bearing vivid red flowers, esp. a bottletree with leaves resembling those of the maple. |
| hard maple |
the sugar maple. |
| maple sugar |
a sweet, yellowish brown, crystalline substance obtained by fully reducing the syrup made from the sap of maple trees. |
| maple syrup |
a sweet, viscous liquid made by reducing the sap from maple trees. |
| Norway maple |
a European maple tree, grown widely in North America as a shade tree. |
| samara |
a winged fruit, as of the elm or maple, that does not split open when ripe and usu. has one seed. |
| schizocarp |
a dry fruit, as of the maple. that splits into two or more single-seed carpels that do not split open. |
| spile |
a tap or spout driven into a sugar maple through which the sap is drawn off. [1/4 definitions] |
| sugar |
to collect and process the sap of maple trees into maple sugar. [1/8 definitions] |
| sugarbush |
a grove or orchard of maple trees, used as a source of maple syrup or maple sugar. |
| sugarhouse |
a building or shed where maple sap is boiled down to make maple syrup and maple sugar. |
| sugar maple |
a maple tree of eastern North America whose hard wood is used for making cabinets and furniture and whose sweet sap is used to make maple syrup and maple sugar. |
| sycamore |
a tree of the maple family, closely resembling the American plane tree. [1/3 definitions] |
| syrup |
a sweetener made from fruit juice, maple sap, or the like, boiled until very concentrated. [1/2 definitions] |
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