maple
/ˈmeɪp(ə)l/ 名词 B1中文： 枫树、槭树
- Any member of any species of genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate, five-lobed leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood · Russian maple· They have a large maple in their yard.
- Often preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of the genus Acer; especially the sugar maple (Acer saccharum) native to North America which has brightly colored autumn foliage and is the primary source of maple syrup.
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of a genus other than Acer which has an appearance or wood similar to an Acer tree. · Queensland maple
- Wood of an Acer tree, valued for its attractive appearance and hardness; also, similar wood from a tree of a genus other than Acer; (countable) a particular type of such wood. · This table is made of maple and also has some fruitwood inlays.
- The light-brown color of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 3).
- The flavor of maple syrup made from the sap of a maple tree, or an imitation of that flavor. · What flavour is your ice-cream? Mine’s maple—it’s delicious.
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Above the bridge the pond ran up into fringing groves of fir and maple and lay all darkly translucent in their wavering shadows.
She had discovered that a lane opened out below the apple orchard and ran up through a belt of woodland; and she had explored it to its furthest end in all its delicious vagaries of brook and bridge, fir coppice and wild cherry arch, corners thick with fern, and branching byways of maple and mountain ash.
Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples--“maples are such sociable trees,” said Anne; “they’re always rustling and whispering to you”--until they came to a rustic bridge.
Anne had gone home in the wonderful, white-frosted winter morning, heavy eyed from loss of sleep, but still talking unweariedly to Matthew as they crossed the long white field and walked under the glittering fairy arch of the Lover’s Lane maples.
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