Definitions for sugar-maple

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sugar-maple sugar maple

Sugar-Maple is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 861 anagrams from letters in sugar-maple (-aaeglmprsu).

Definitions for sugar-maple

noun

1. any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.

Origin of sugar-maple

An Americanism dating back to 1725-35

Examples for sugar-maple

Leaf: Like the leaf of the sugar maple but thicker in texture and darker in color.

This bird drills holes in the sugar maple in the spring for the sap.

How do you distinguish the red maple and the silver maple from the sugar maple?

sugar maple is good, too, but it is too valuable a tree to waste.

It is in general use, but not for as many purposes as sugar maple.

A land where the Se-se-pask-wut-a-tik (sugar maple tree) grows and flourishes in all its beauty.

For the sugar of candy-making, there are three sources: the sugar cane, sugar beet and the sugar maple.

The black maple is the sugar maple of South Dakota and Iowa.

The sugar maple abounds in the northern and middle portions.

There is also a variety of sugar maple that is called black maple.