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A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
Examples
- Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack
- Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.
- In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.
- 2001, Howard Paap, Northern Land: Life with the Ojibwe http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1878569783&id=E49tv0IUbzwC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&ots=NgTARD3OW6&dq=sugarbush+maple&sig=Jd72oibGUPlSUo6EOGJfaOvspgM The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.
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Protea repens (common sugarbush)
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Protea spp.
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From sugar + bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.
Across languages
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French:
érablière
— grove of maples
