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sugar-maple

sugar-maple is the alternative form of sugar maple.

Meaning of sugar maple

Noun

sugar maple (plural sugar maples)

  1. A North American hardwood tree, Acer saccharum, famed as the source of maple sugar and maple flavoring; the wood from such a tree.
    • Residents love this trail because of its wet coolness in the summer; its bright orange sugar maples in autumn, the contrast of green pines and white snow in the winter.2024 December 6, Mackenzie Farkus, Brooke Holder, Nate Iglehart, Jacob Posner, Sophie Ungerleider, “Record drought and blazes? The US Northeast awakens to new wildfire risks.”, in The Christian...

Forms of sugar-maple

pluralsugar-maples

Phrases with sugar-maple

Questions about sugar-maple

What is sugar-maple the alternative form of?
Sugar-maple is the alternative form of sugar maple.

Words near sugar-maple in the dictionary

  1. sugar-houses
  2. sugar-loaf
  3. sugar-loaf hat
  4. sugar-loaf hats
  5. sugar-loaves
  6. sugar-maple
  7. sugar-maple borer
  8. sugar-maple borers
  9. sugar-maples
  10. sugar-mill
  11. sugar-mills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugar-maple (page history and authors); sugar maple (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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