Maple ::
Maple (n.) 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.