maple
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
maple/ˈmeɪpl/
▶noun a tree or shrub with lobed leaves, winged fruits, and a syrupy sap. [Acer campestre (field maple, Europe), A. saccharum (sugar maple, N. America), and related species.]
– origin OE mapel- in mapeltreow, mapulder ‘maple tree’.
'maple' also found in these Oxford entries:
acer
- box elder
- brush
- harewood
- key
- liquidambar
- maple leaf
- maple sugar
- maple syrup
- plane
- samara
- spile
- sugar
- sugar maple
- sycamore
