Maple

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol;
     akin to Icel. m["o]purr; 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}.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
           a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  maple
       n 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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Maple
       
          A {symbolic mathematics} package by B. Char, K. Geddes,
          G. Gonnet, M. Monagan and S. Watt of the {University of
          Waterloo}, Canada and {ETH} Zurich, Switzerland in 1980.
          Version: Maple V.
       
          E-mail: .  Mailing list:
          glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu.
       
          (1994-10-21)
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Maple, NC
    Zip code(s): 27956
  Maple, TX
    Zip code(s): 79344
  Maple, WI
    Zip code(s): 54854