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English Dictionary: Maple by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maple \Ma"ple\, n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel.
      m[94]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.]
      (Bot.)
      A tree of the genus {Acer}, including about fifty species.
      {A. 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 or swamp maple is {A.
      rubrum}; the silver maple, {A. dasycarpum}, having fruit
      wooly when young; the striped maple, {A. Pennsylvanium},
      called also {moosewood}. The common maple of Europe is {A.
      campestre}, the sycamore maple is {A. Pseudo-platanus}, and
      the Norway maple is {A. platanoides}.
  
      Note: 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}, [or] {Maple sirup}, maple
            sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
  
      {Maple sugar}, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
            by evaporation.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Maple, NC
      Zip code(s): 27956
   Maple, TX
      Zip code(s): 79344
   Maple, WI
      Zip code(s): 54854

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)
  
  
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