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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.


sugar maple

noun

  1. a North American maple tree, Acer saccharum, that is grown as a source of sugar, which is extracted from the sap, and for its hard wood
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • sugar-maple adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sugar maple1

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35
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Example Sentences

On those roller coasters, I kept my glasses on, and the views of the surrounding Smoky Mountains, dotted with sugar maple trees and magnolias, were magnificent.

With sugar maples, you’ll need 10 gallons of sap to make one quart of syrup.

Know your maple syrup numbersA really friendly sugar maple tree may yield sap that is almost 5% sugar by volume.

The sugar maple isn’t the only tree species that can provide us with tasty syrup.

After sticking the axe many times into a sugar maple tree in early spring, his wife noticed the water running out of the trunk.

The occurrence of the sugar maple adds another element of Indian subsistence.

At last the trail lay over a slope overlooking a little cove, where there stood a large sugar-maple.

Our sugar maple is less striking and beautiful in the bud, but the flowers are more graceful and fringelike.

Frank and his brother had both heard of the famous sugar-maple, though neither of them had ever seen it.

Nothing was heard for some moments but cries of joy, mingled with the words ‘sugar’ and ‘sugar-maple.’

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