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Silver maple

noun

A common North American maple tree; five-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood. Synonym: Acer saccharinum.

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"Silver maple" Quotes from Famous Books

... and welcome within, very grateful in the chill, winter dusk. And at the side of the house, on a small knoll, spreading its bare branches over the roof as though to shield the home from the biting blasts, grew a gigantic silver maple, a welcome shelter alike in summer ...

— The Silver Maple • Marian Keith

... see, sir, that there onion seed that you gave him was really the seed of the silver maple tree, and it's growed up so thick all over his garden that a cat can't crawl through it. There's about forty million shoots and suckers in that garden, and they'll have to be cut out with a handsaw. It'll take about a ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

Words linked to "Silver maple" : maple