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Webster 1913 Edition

Maple

Ma′ple

(mā′p’l)
,
Noun.
[AS.
mapolder
,
mapulder
,
mapol
; akin to Icel.
möpurr
; cf. OHG.
mazzaltra
,
mazzoltra
, G.
massholder
.]
(Bot.)
A tree of the genus
Acer
, including about fifty species.
Acer saccharinum
is the
rock maple
, or
sugar maple
, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the
red maple
or
swamp maple
is
Acer rubrum
; the
silver maple
,
Acer dasycarpum
, having fruit wooly when young; the
striped maple
,
Acer Pennsylvanium
, called also
moosewood
. The common maple of Europe is
Acer campestre
, the
sycamore maple
is
Acer Pseudo-platanus
, and the
Norway maple
is
Acer platanoides
.
☞ Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
Bird’s-eye maple
,
Curled maple
,
varieties of the wood of the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
–
Maple honey
,
Maple molasses
,
Maple syrup
, or
Maple sirup
,
maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
–
Maple sugar
,
sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation.

Webster 1828 Edition

Maple

MA'PLE

Definition 2024

Maple

Maple

See also: maple

English

Proper noun

Maple

  1. A surname​.
  2. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
  3. A town in Wisconsin.

maple

maple

See also: Maple

English

striped maple Acer pensylvanicum

Wikispecies

Noun

maple ‎(plural maples)

  1. A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.
  2. The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance

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References

  1. ↑ Friedrich Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, s.v. "Maser" (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2002).
  2. ↑ Francis A. Wood, "Germanic Etymologies", Modern Philology (University of Chicago Press, January 1914), 1.

Etymology

From Old English mapultrēow and mapulder, from Proto-Germanic *mapulaz (compare Old Saxon mapulder, Old High German mazaltra, mazzaltra; Old Norse möpurr, Middle Low German mapeldorn, dialectal Dutch meppel, German Masseller, Maßholder), perhaps a blend of *masuraz 'knob; maple-tree' (compare Old Norse mösurr 'maple', Low German/German Maser ‎(“knob, offshoot”) and *apulaz ‎(“apple”) (see apple), from *masam 'lump, knob' (compare obsolete German Mase ‎(“scar”), modern Maser ‎(“speck, measle”).[1][2] More at measles.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeɪpl̩/
  • Rhymes: -eɪpəl

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