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SILVER MAPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silver maple mean?
• SILVER MAPLE (noun)
The noun SILVER MAPLE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: SILVER MAPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Acer saccharinum; silver maple
Hypernyms ("silver maple" is a kind of...):
maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)
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