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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maple mean? 

• MAPLE (noun)
  The noun MAPLE has 2 senses:

1. wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring

2. any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

  Familiarity information: MAPLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("maple" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maple"):

bird's-eye maple (maple wood having a wavy grain with eyelike markings)

Holonyms ("maple" is a substance of...):

maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("maple" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Meronyms (substance of "maple"):

maple (wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maple"):

Acer saccharinum; silver maple (a common North American maple tree; five-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood)

Acer palmatum; Japanese maple (ornamental shrub or small tree of Japan and Korea with deeply incised leaves; cultivated in many varieties)

Acer japonicum; full moon maple; Japanese maple (leaves deeply incised and bright red in autumn; Japan)

Acer argutum; pointed-leaf maple (small shrubby Japanese plant with leaves having 5 to 7 acuminate lobes; yellow in autumn)

Acer negundo; ash-leaved maple; box elder (common shade tree of eastern and central United States)

Acer pseudoplatanus; great maple; scottish maple; sycamore (Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn)

Acer platanoides; Norway maple (a large Eurasian maple tree naturalized in North America; five-lobed leaves yellow in autumn; cultivated in many varieties)

Acer campestre; field maple; hedge maple (shrubby Eurasian maple often used as a hedge)

Acer circinatum; vine maple (small maple of northwestern North America having prostrate stems that root freely and form dense thickets)

Acer spicatum; mountain alder; mountain maple (small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in autumn)

Acer glabrum; dwarf maple; Rocky-mountain maple (small maple of northwestern North America)

Acer macrophyllum; big-leaf maple; Oregon maple (maple of western North America having large 5-lobed leaves orange in autumn)

Acer pennsylvanicum; goosefoot maple; moose-wood; moosewood; striped dogwood; striped maple (maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn)

Acer rubrum; red maple; scarlet maple; swamp maple (maple of eastern and central America; five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn)

Acer saccharum; rock maple; sugar maple (maple of eastern and central North America having three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and hard close-grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly-grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies)

Holonyms ("maple" is a member of...):

Acer; genus Acer (type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit)

 Context examples 

Maple Grove will probably be my model more than it ought to be—for we do not at all affect to equal my brother, Mr. Suckling, in income.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The study found that 54 percent of striped maple trees changed mating type over a four-year period, with some switching multiple times.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

Maple White Land it became, and so it is named in that chart which has become my special task.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A structure consisting of the fertilized and mature ovules ("seeds") and the ovary wall, which may be fleshy (as in the apple) or dry and hard (as in a maple fruit).

(Fruit, Food and Drug Administration)

A structure consisting of the fertilized and immature ovules ("seeds") and the ovary wall, which may be fleshy (as in the apple) or dry and hard (as in a maple fruit).

(Fruit, Immature, Food and Drug Administration)

"There'll be a check at the post-office, I know, and we'll transmute it into beautiful buckwheat flour, a gallon of maple syrup, and a new pair of overshoes for you."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Go, pick up my things, like a cherub, as you are, said Jo, dropping down under a maple tree, which was carpeting the bank with crimson leaves.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Maple White passed Rosario four years ago, or two years before I saw his dead body.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers found that striped maple trees can switch from male to female or female to male from year to year.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

Maple Grove has given me a thorough disgust to people of that sort; for there is a family in that neighbourhood who are such an annoyance to my brother and sister from the airs they give themselves!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)