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单词 white maple
释义

white maplen.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪt ˈmeɪpl/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪt ˈmeɪp(ə)l/
Forms: see white adj. and n. and maple n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., maple n.1
Etymology: < white adj. + maple n.1In the following quot., white maple translates French charme au blanc rameau ‘hornbeam with white branches’ (the French word for ‘maple’ is érable):1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 93 White Maple, shadie Elme, Through Hill and Plaine ranged their plumed Ranks.
Any of several North American maples, esp. the silver maple, Acer saccharinum, the undersides of the leaves of which are whitish. Also: pale sapwood from any species of maple.
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maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
1774 in Rep. Board Trustees Public Archives Nova Scotia (1945) 34 This town..affords a great store of fine timber..white and black ash; white mapple; rock mapple.
1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont 157 The White Maple most generally grows in swampy grounds, and the pores of it are more open and spongy than the Black Maple.
1828 New Eng. Farmer 6 June 366/3 I have used white maple for hoops to buckets.
1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 101 The white maple puts forth green and yellow flowers early in the spring.
1884 8th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1883–4 64 The rock maple makes the best sugar, while the white maple will make the whitest.
1916 E. T. Seton Woodcraft Man. 291 Silver Maple, White or Soft Maple..usually a little smaller than the Sugar Maple.
1995 Lawrence (Kansas) Jrnl.-World 17 Sept. d5/5 Ten trees, including..sugar and white maples..will be given to each person who joins the National Arbor Day Foundation.
2006 B. Gove Logging Railroads of Adirondacks 132/2 The market for piano action stock was then very active, demanding white maple (sapwood of hard maple).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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