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Definition: maple from Philip's Encyclopedia

Genus of deciduous trees native to temperate and cool regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. They have yellowish or greenish flowers and winged seeds. They are grown for ornament, shade or timber, depending on the species; the sugar maple is also tapped for maple syrup. A common British example is the sycamore tree. Height: 4.6-36m (15-120ft). Family Aceraceae; genus Acer.

maple

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
common name for the genus Acer of the Aceraceae, a family of deciduous trees and shrubs of the Northern Hemisphere, found mainly in temperate regions and on tropical mountain slopes. Acer , the principal genus, includes the many maples and the box elder. Maples are popular as shade trees and often have brilliantly colored foliage in the fall. Several E North American species provide valuable timber, notably the sugar, hard, or rock, maple ( A. saccharum ), and the more brittle-timbered black maple ( A. nigrum ). Their strong, close-grained, easily worked hardwood is used in shipbuilding and aircraft construction, for floors, fuel, and wood pulp, and in many other industries. Bird's-eye and curly maple are decorative cuts used for cabinetmaking. In addition, these two maples are the main sources of maple sugar. A prevalent and widely distributed North American species is the swamp, or red, maple ( A. rubrum ). The box elder, or ash-leaved maple ( A. negundo ), is a smaller North…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
common name for the genus Acer of the Aceraceae, a family of deciduous trees and shrubs of the Northern Hemisphere, found mainly in temperate regions and on tropical mountain slopes. Acer , the principal genus, includes the many maples and the box elder. Maples are popular as shade trees and often…
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Full text Article maple syrup; maple sugar

From The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion
maple syrup; maple sugar
The American Indians taught the Colonists how to tap the maple tree for its sap and boil it down to what the Indians called “sweetwater.” Canada, New York, and Vermont are all known for their superior maple products. The maple-tapping season (called “sugar season”) usually begins sometime around…
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Full text Article maple syrup

From The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
is a sweetener made from intensive evaporation of the sap of maple trees. Most maple syrup is made by harvesting sap from the species Acer saccharum , the sugar maple. Sap can also be harvested from Acer nigrum (black maple), Acer rubrum (red maple), and Acer saccharinum (silver maple), but none…
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Full text Article maple syrup and maple sugar

From The Oxford Companion to Food
specialities of the east of Canada (predominantly Quebec) and the north-east of the USA, are both produced by boiling down the sap of maple trees, notably the N. American sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ) and the black maple ( A. nigrum ). The process produces syrup first, while the sugar needs further…
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Full text Article maple sugaring

From The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
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is the practice of making maple syrup from the sweet sap that flows from sugar maple trees in late winter–early spring. Owning a sugar bush—a stand of sugar maple trees—and a sugar house, and annually harvesting sap to make maple syrup, persists as a rural family tradition throughout New England, …
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Full text Article MAPLE SYRUP

From Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink
A sweet syrup or sugar made from the sugar maple tree ( Acer saccharum ), also called the “hard maple” or “rock maple.” The word is from Old English mapel. Although Europeans were familiar with various species of maple trees in their own countries, they were unaware of the American sugar maple's…
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Full text Article maple syrup

From Library of Health and Living: The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health
A syrup prepared from the sap of the sugar maple tree ( Acer saccharum ), native to eastern North America. This sweetener contains sugars like sucrose, glucose, and fructose and has a distinctive flavor. During winter, starch is converted to sugar in tree roots, and it is carried up the trunk in the…
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Full text Article Vermont Maple Festival

From Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
Vermont is the official maple capital of the world, and the maple festival held there each spring is really a statewide celebration. Maple sugaring—the process of tapping maple trees, gathering the sap, and boiling it in the sugarhouse to produce syrup—was a main source of income for the early…
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Full text Article MAPLE

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
American Congregational preacher and orator Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked), plain, good, useful, but not adorable. In Drysdale, William (ed.) Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit Nature (p. 10 ) D. Appleton & Co. New York New York USA . 1887. …
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Full text Article Maple Syrup Urine Disease

From The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets
Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), which is also known as branched-chain ketoaciduria, branchedchain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase deficiency, or BCKD deficiency, is a rare but potentially fatal inherited metabolic disorder (IMD) passed down in an autosomal recessive pattern. The special diet…
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