maple
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.
Other meanings
Wood of an Acer tree, valued for its attractive appearance and hardness; also, similar wood from a tree of a genus other than Acer; a particular type of such wood.
The flavour of maple syrup made from the sap of a maple tree, or an imitation of that flavour.
“What flavour is your ice-cream? Mine’s maple—it’s delicious.”
A kind of
- flowering tree
Kinds of maple
- silver maple
- sugar maple
- red maple
- moose-wood
- big-leaf maple
- dwarf maple
- mountain maple
- vine maple
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "mapel".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “maple” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.