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box elder

box elder noun: acer negundo, a North American maple.

box elder: acer negundo, a North American maple
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Noun

box elder (countable and uncountable, plural box elders)

  1. Acer negundo, a North American maple.
    • We crossed during the morning a number of hollows, timbered principally with box elder, (acer negundo,) poplar, and elm.1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton...
    • The little valleys nestling along the streams are diversified by bordering willows, clumps of box elder, and small groves of cottonwood.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...

Forms of box elder

pluralbox elders
alternative formboxelder
alternative formbox-elder

Words formed from box elder

Questions about box elder

What does box elder mean?
Box elder means acer negundo, a North American maple.
What part of speech is box elder?
Box elder is a noun.
What is the plural of box elder?
The plural of box elder is box elders.

Words near box elder in the dictionary

  1. box coats
  2. box crab
  3. box crabs
  4. box cutter
  5. box cutters
  6. box elder
  7. Box Elder County
  8. box elder maple
  9. box elder maples
  10. box elders
  11. box file

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