Definitions for maple

maple ma·ple

Spelling: [mey-puh l]
IPA: /ˈmeɪ pəl/

Maple is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in maple (aelmp).

Definitions for maple

noun

  1. any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer, species of which are grown as shade or ornamental trees, for timber, or for sap. Compare maple family.
  2. the wood of any such tree.
  3. the flavor of maple syrup or maple sugar.
  4. Bowling Slang. pin (def 12).

Origin of maple

before 900; Middle English mapel, Old English mapul-, in mapultrēow, mapulder maple tree, cognate with Old Saxon mapulder

Examples for maple

Sally ate it with maple syrup; at home we ate the store-bought kind with ketchup.

Beat the eggs, add the maple sirup, and add this to the milk.

The monument was dedicated July 28th, 1867, at the maple grove, in the park.

“Treat every crime as if the victim were your mother,” maple would say.

Lay a young birch or maple an inch or so in diameter across a log.

I know the beech and the maple, and some kinds of oak, but there my wood lore ends.

His voice carried no hint that he felt he—or even he and maple–deserved credit for the transformation.

Bratton later suggested that a statue of maple should be erected in Times Square.

Back in New York, maple fell ill with cancer and died in 2001 at the age of 48.

One and a half cups of maple syrup, and one-fourth of a cup of vinegar.

Word Value for maple
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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