'rock maple' definitions:
Definition of 'rock maple'
From: WordNet
noun
Maple of eastern and central North America having three- lobed to five-lobed leaves and hard close-grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly-grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies [syn: sugar maple, rock maple, Acer saccharum]
Definition of 'rock maple'
From: GCIDE
- 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]