mazer

en-noun

mazer (countable and uncountable, plural mazers)

From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”).
It has been suggested that the English word might instead come from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by a putative derivative mæseren), but the evidence for this is slight and disputed.

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(obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.


sycamore

en-noun

sycamore (countable and uncountable, plural sycamores)

Circa 1350 as Middle English sicamour, from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, from Ancient Greek σῡκόμορος (sūkómoros, literally “fig-mulberry”), from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Possibly influenced by Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “fig-mulberry”).
In the 16th c. applied to the European maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), in the early 19th c. to various plane tree species introduced to North America, perhaps in analogy to their shadiness.

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Stars shining bright above you / Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you / Birds singin' in the sycamore trees

1931, “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, Gus Kahn (lyrics), Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt (music):

On his dark face were white sycamore patches.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 408:

Platanus occidentalis
Platanus occidentalis#Translingual

(US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.


maple

en-noun

maple (countable and uncountable, plural maples)

desc

→ Kashubian: majpél (Canada, United States)

→ Portuguese: meiple

From Middle English mapel, from Old English *mapul (attested in mapultrēow and mapulder), from Proto-Germanic *mapulaz (compare Old Saxon mapulder, Old High German mazaltra, mazzaltra; Old Norse mǫpurr, Middle Low German mapeldorn, dialectal Dutch meppel, German Masseller, Maßholder), perhaps a blend of *masuraz (“knob; maple-tree”) (compare Old English mæsen (“maple”), Old Norse mǫsurr (“maple”), German Maser (“knob, offshoot”)) and *aplaz (“apple”) (see apple), from *masą (“lump, knob”) (compare obsolete German Mase (“scar”), modern Maser (“speck, measle”). More at measles.

A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

གཡའ་ཤིང (g.ya' shing, literally “rust-wood”)


sycamore maple

Acer pseudoplatanus
Acer pseudoplatanus#Translingual

(chiefly US) The British and European sycamore tree, Acer pseudoplatanus.


maple syrup

en-noun

maple syrup (countable and uncountable, plural maple syrups)

Syrup flavored with artificial maple flavoring; though legally in the United States cannot be labelled as such when for sale.


sugar maple

Acer saccharum
Acer saccharum#Translingual

A North American hardwood, Acer saccharum, famed as the source of maple sugar and maple flavoring.


sugar shack

A building where sap from a sugarbush is boiled down to make maple syrup.


sugarbush

From sugar + bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.

Indeed, acid rain has long been pointed to as the culprit in the diminished productivity and value of northern Maine and Vermont sugarbush (maple syrup producing trees).

1999, U.S. Congress, NOx State Implementation Plans: hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0160606748&id=zB0xrjRFjT8C&q=sugarbush+maple&dq=sugarbush+maple&pgis=1

2001, Howard Paap, Northern Land: Life with the Ojibwe http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1878569783&id=E49tv0IUbzwC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&ots=NgTARD3OW6&dq=sugarbush+maple&sig=Jd72oibGUPlSUo6EOGJfaOvspgM
The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.

Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.

2006, Elaine Elliot, Maple Syrup http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN088780697X&id=vt4_fhFTbt8C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=BmfhDZmEgM&dq=sugarbush+maple&sig=lW6_ddQPMID-HehrnePAt3p7llA#PPA1,M1


sugarhouse

(Canada) A small cabin or shack where sap collected from sugar maples is boiled into maple syrup.


maple sugar

maple sugar (countable and uncountable, plural maple sugars)

MAPLE SUGAR SANDWICH: On thin slices of lightly buttered white bread spread maple sugar, put slices together and cut with a maple leaf cutter. Serve with hot coffee.

1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 159:

A type of sugar made by boiling the sap of the sugar maple.

楓糖

type of sugar made from boiled maple sap


sugar off

en-verb

sugar off (third-person singular simple present sugars off, present participle sugaring off, simple past and past participle sugared off)

sugars off (present singular third-person)
sugaring off (participle present)
sugared off (participle past)
sugared off (past)

(intransitive) To reduce maple sap by boiling to make maple syrup, maple sugar or maple toffee.


sugar bush

An evergreen shrub found in south-western United States of America, Rhus ovata.


moosewood

en-noun

moosewood (usually uncountable, plural moosewoods)

Acer pensylvanicum
Acer pensylvanicum#Translingual


sugarer

Someone who sugars foods, who adds sugar to food products.

March 2004, Naples News - Teen has even higher goals for acclaimed maple syrup
Fisk, a fifth-generation sugarer and high school sophomore, is one of more than 900 syrup producers in the state, many of whom tap only a handful of trees and produce just enough for their families.

If you are such a frustrated maple sugarer, I have a solution to offer whereby you can sugar this spring with no physical effort...

1990, Noel Perrin, First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer, →ISBN, page 23:


Manitoba maple

(Canada) A small, fast-growing and fairly short-lived species of North American maple with pinnately compound leaves, Acer negundo.


maple leaf

The Canadian was forced to miss the event due to budget issues, however, in his place, a number of drivers are flying the maple leaf

2022 November 10, “RADICAL CUP NORTH AMERICA Star-Studded Field Set for Radical Cup World Finals”, in sportscar365:

Alternative form of Maple Leaf (“the flag of Canada”)


mazer bowl

[…] by his side / A mighty Mazer bowle of wine was set, / As if it had to him bene sacrifide; / Wherewith all new-come guests he gratifide […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

A Loafe of bread was brought out, and delivered to the Sinne-eater over the corps, as also a Mazar-bowle of maple (Gossips bowle) full of beer, wᶜʰ he was to drinke up..

1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 35:

(historical) A bowl or cup made from a knot of a maple tree and often decorated with silver.


red maple

From the reddish color of its flowers, petioles, twigs and seeds, which distinguish it from other maples.


swamp maple

From its being the variety of maple most likely to be found in poorly drained environments.


soft maple

From the weakness of its wood relative to other maples.


harewood

stained sycamore maple wood, used in cabinet making


rock maple

From the hardness of its wood relative to the wood of other maples.


black maple

A variety of maple tree of eastern North America, Acer nigrum, closely related to the sugar maple, but with a darker bark and three-lobed leaves.


hard maple

hard maple (countable and uncountable, plural hard maples)


vine maple

From the spreading, twisting growth habit of its branches.

A relatively small maple (Acer circinatum), found in western North America, resembling the Japanese maple, often grown as an ornamental.


Japanese maple

Acer palmatum
Acer palmatum#Translingual

A species of maple, Acer palmatum, with great natural variety of appearance, often with reddish leaves for most of the year and multiple trunks, widely grown as an ornamental.


mountain maple

mountain maple (countable and uncountable, plural mountain maples)


moose maple

moose maple (countable and uncountable, plural moose maples)


striped maple

striped maple (countable and uncountable, plural striped maples)


Norway maple

Norway maple (countable and uncountable, plural Norway maples)

Acer platanoides
Acer platanoides#Translingual

Acer platanoides, a species of maple native to most of Europe, the Caucasus and northern Turkey.


box elder maple

box elder maple (countable and uncountable, plural box elder maples)


box elder

box elder (countable and uncountable, plural box elders)

We crossed during the morning a number of hollows, timbered principally with box elder, (acer negundo,) poplar, and elm.

1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:

The little valleys nestling along the streams are diversified by bordering willows, clumps of box elder, and small groves of cottonwood.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:


black ash

Any tree of species Fraxinus nigra, native to much of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.


field maple

Acer campestre
Acer campestre#Translingual

A maple tree of the species Acer campestre.


bird's-eye maple

So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match.

1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 58:

The two staterooms are similarly treated; the walls are panelled in bird's eye maple, with light mahogany mouldings, and the furniture is in sycamore and mahogany.

1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:

More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.

1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21:

Maple wood with small eye-like markings, valued for use in decorative woodwork.


silver maple

Acer saccharinum
Acer saccharinum#Translingual

A maple tree of the species Acer saccharinum, native to eastern North America, with leaves having a very pale underside.


false plane tree

false plane tree (plural false plane trees)

A sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), native to North America.


snakebark maple

snakebark maple (plural snakebark maples)

Another snakebark maple grown for its striped bark, 'White Tigress', is probably a hybrid of this species.

2014, Allen J. Coombes, The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees:

Any maple tree belonging to the section Macrantha, with distinctive patterned bark.


Montpellier maple

Montpellier maple (plural Montpellier maples)

Acer monspessulanum
Acer monspessulanum#Translingual

A low tree or shrub (Acer monspessulanum) native to France, Spain, and Italy


Oregon maple

(dated) The bigleaf maple, Acer macrophyllum


bigleaf maple

Acer macrophyllum, a maple native from southern California to southern British Columbia. and it's got big leaves.