Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
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;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol;
akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G.
massholder.] (Bot.)
A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species.
Acer 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 maple or swamp
maple is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, Acer
dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped
maple, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The
common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the sycamore
maple is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is
Acer platanoides.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
[1913 Webster]
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, Maple syrup, or Maple
sirup, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
by evaporation.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)