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adj
Of the light-brown colour of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 1.3).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of the flavour of, or made with, maple syrup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
A surname.
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An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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A town in Wisconsin.
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An urban community in Vaughan, York Region, Ontario, Canada.
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name
Clipping of MapleStory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
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noun
A small tree, Acer campestre, known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A small tree, Acer campestre, known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
Often preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of the genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood; especially the sugar maple (Acer saccharum) native to North America which has brightly coloured autumn foliage and is the primary source of maple syrup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A small tree, Acer campestre, known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of a genus other than Acer which has an appearance or wood similar to an Acer tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A small tree, Acer campestre, known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
Wood of an Acer tree, valued for its attractive appearance and hardness; also, similar wood from a tree of a genus other than Acer; (countable) a particular type of such wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A small tree, Acer campestre, known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
Wood of an Acer tree, valued for its attractive appearance and hardness; also, similar wood from a tree of a genus other than Acer; (countable) a particular type of such wood.
The light-brown colour of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 1.3).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The flavour of maple syrup made from the sap of a maple tree, or an imitation of that flavour.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Short for maple pea (“the field pea (Pisum sativum subsp. arvense) which has brown, speckled seeds used dry rather than fresh; a seed of this plant”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable
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noun
Synonym of mapau (“any of several trees of New Zealand, especially in the genus Myrsine”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, archaic
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Synonyms: mapau
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noun
any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Narrower terms: silver maple, Acer saccharinum, sugar maple, rock maple, Acer saccharum, red maple, scarlet maple, swamp maple, Acer rubrum, moosewood, moose-wood, striped maple, striped dogwood, goosefoot maple, Acer pennsylvanicum, Oregon maple, big-leaf maple, Acer macrophyllum, dwarf maple, Rocky-mountain maple, Acer glabrum, mountain maple, mountain alder, Acer spicatum, vine maple, Acer circinatum, hedge maple, field maple, Acer campestre, Norway maple, Acer platanoides, sycamore, great maple, scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, box elder, ash-leaved maple, Acer negundo, pointed-leaf maple, Acer argutum, Japanese maple, full moon maple, Acer japonicum, Acer palmatum
noun
wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wood
Narrower terms: bird's-eye maple
History
The noun is derived from Middle English mapel (“a European maple, especially the common maple (Acer campestre); wood of such a tree; artistic representation of a maple leaf; a beam, pole, stake (?)”), from Old English *mapul (attested in mapulder (“maple tree”), mapultrēow (“maple tree”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic *mapul (“maple tree”), from Proto-Germanic *mapulaz; further etymology uncertain, possibly from *masuraz (“type of wood with spots or veins, such as maple or walnut”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mos- (“skin sore”)) + *aplaz (“apple; fruit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2ébōl (“apple; apple tree”)). The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun. cognates * Dutch meppel (dialectal) * Old English mæsen (“maple”) * Middle Low German mapeldorn * Old High German mazaltra, mazzaltra (modern German Masseller, Maßholder; Mase (“scar”), Maser (“knob; offshoot; measle, speck”)) * Old Norse mǫpurr, mǫsurr (“maple”) * Old Saxon mapulder
English surname, from the noun maple.
A variant of mapau, influenced by maple (etymology 1).
Across languages
159 source translations are retained for this English entry.
