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sugarbush

sugarbush noun: a wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.

Noun

sugarbush (plural sugarbushes)

  1. (Canada, US) A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
    • Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack
    • Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.
  2. Protea repens (common sugarbush)
  3. Protea spp.

Examples of sugarbush in a sentence

  • In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.
  • Indeed, acid rain has long been pointed to as the culprit in the diminished productivity and value of northern Maine and Vermont sugarbush (maple syrup producing trees).1999, U.S. Congress, NOx State Implementation Plans: hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear...
  • Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.2006, Elaine Elliot, Maple Syrup http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN088780697X&id=vt4_fhFTbt8C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=BmfhDZmEgM&dq=sugarbush...

Forms of sugarbush

pluralsugarbushes

Origin of sugarbush

From sugar + bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.

Words formed from sugarbush

Questions about sugarbush

What does sugarbush mean?
Sugarbush means a wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
How do you use sugarbush in a sentence?
In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.
What part of speech is sugarbush?
Sugarbush is a noun.
What is the plural of sugarbush?
The plural of sugarbush is sugarbushes.

Words near sugarbush in the dictionary

  1. sugarberry
  2. sugarbird
  3. sugarbirds
  4. sugarbowl
  5. sugarbowls
  6. sugarbush
  7. sugarbushes
  8. sugarcakes
  9. sugarcane
  10. sugarcane borer
  11. sugarcane borers

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