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- noun The
sugar maple ,Acer saccharum .
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- noun maple of eastern and central North America having three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and hard close-grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly-grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies
Etymologies
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From the hardness of its wood relative to the wood of other maples.
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