sugar maple
noun
1
: a maple (Acer saccharum) of eastern North America with 3- to 5-lobed leaves, hard close-grained wood much used for cabinetwork, and sap that is the chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar
called also rock maple, hard maple
2
: any of several maples (especially Acer nigrum and A. grandidentatum) often considered subspecies of the sugar maple
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In fact, Indigenous peoples taught the settlers how to harvest and concentrate the sweet sap of the sugar maples that grow across northeastern Canada and the United States.
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Debbie Olsen, AFAR Media, 13 Mar. 2025
Tennessee is a beautiful state, especially in the fall, when tulip poplars, sugar maples and hickory trees turn bright red, gold and copper, making the drive as joyful as the destination.
—Colleen Creamer, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
All of the forests listed as old-growth sites have documented patches of old-growth trees growing among the forest canopy with trees including pitch pine, hardwood, red cedar, black gum and sugar maple.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
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.
—Sophie Ungerleider, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024
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Debbie Olsen, AFAR Media, 13 Mar. 2025
Tennessee is a beautiful state, especially in the fall, when tulip poplars, sugar maples and hickory trees turn bright red, gold and copper, making the drive as joyful as the destination.
—Colleen Creamer, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
All of the forests listed as old-growth sites have documented patches of old-growth trees growing among the forest canopy with trees including pitch pine, hardwood, red cedar, black gum and sugar maple.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
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.
—Sophie Ungerleider, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Sugar maple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sugar%20maple. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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