A maple (maple, n.1 1a); †the wood of this (obsolete).

A small Eurasian tree, Acer campestre (family Aceraceae), which has five-lobed palmate leaves and occurs commonly in hedgerows (more fully common…

Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). = plane, n.1 2.

the sycamore, Acer pseudoplatanus; = sycamore, n. 2.

= sycamore, n. (in various senses).

A large species of maple, Acer Pseudoplatanus, introduced into Britain from the Continent, and grown as a shady ornamental tree and for its wood.

(a) = sugar maple, n.; (b) = sugar-bush, n. 2; (c) an Australian shrub, Myoporum platycarpum.

The North American tree Acer saccharinum, which yields maple-sugar. Also, the light-coloured wood of this tree.

a maple of eastern North America, Acer rubrum, having red flowers and twigs, and foliage that turns brilliant red in the autumn; also called swamp…

Acer rubrum.

= sugar maple, n.

Any of several North American maples, esp. the silver maple, Acer saccharinum, the undersides of the leaves of which are whitish. Also: pale sapwood…

(a) (see quot.1775); (b) = Calabur tree, n.; (c) = Queensland maple n. at Queensland, n. 1g.

Any of various North American shrubs and trees popularly associated with moose; spec. (a) the leatherwood, Dirca palustris; (b) the striped maple, Ace…

any of several maples (Acer species) growing in upland areas; (in later use) esp. A. spicatum.

a maple having pinnately compound leaves, Acer negundo, native to North America and widely naturalized elsewhere.

Any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer (family Sapindaceae), comprising the maples (see maple, n.1 1); the wood of any of these trees or…

= sense 2.

the sycamore, Acer pseudoplatanus; in full mock plane tree.

a small tree or shrub, Acer monspessulanum, native to the Mediterranean region and cultivated elsewhere, which resembles the field maple, A. campestre…

any of various maples typically found growing near water, esp. (in early use) the ash-leaved maple (or box elder), Acer negundo, and (in later use)…

any of various maple trees with relatively soft wood; esp. red maple, Acer rubrum, and silver maple, A. saccharinum; (also) the wood of any of these…

= sugar maple, n.

= red maple n. at red, adj. n.compounds 1e(d) (Miller); also several other species, as the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, the mountain maple, A. spi…

the mountain maple (Acer spicatum) of north-eastern North America.

(a) a shrubby maple tree; esp. the mountain maple, Acer spicatum; (b) North American an orchard or grove of sugar maples.

an Italian maple of the subspecies Acer opalus subsp. obtusatum (formerly A. neapolitanum), having larger leaves with downy undersides.

In full, snake-bark(ed) maple. A maple, esp. Acer pennsylvanicum from eastern North America or Acer davidii from eastern Asia, belonging to a group…

either of two small maples of eastern North America, mountain maple, Acer spicatum, and striped maple, A. pensylvanicum.

the mountain ash, Pyrus aucuparia; also the sycamore, Acer pseudo-platanus (Eng. Dial. Dict.).

The ash-leaved maple or box elder, Acer negundo.

a variety of Acer palmatum or A. japonicum, cultivated esp. for its decorative foliage.

Of a curled form; wavy, undulating; of plants, having curled leaves. curly maple (see curled, adj. 3c).

In the names of plants occurring in Queensland or products obtained from them. either of two evergreen trees of the genus Flindersia (family Rutaceae…

In full paperbark maple. A maple native to central China, Acer griseum, having flaky, light brown bark.

Used attrib. to designate plants and animals native to or originating from the Amur region, as Amur maple n. a small maple, Acer ginnala, with…