'Swamp maple' definitions:
Definition of 'swamp maple'
(from WordNet)
noun
Maple of eastern and central America; five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn [syn: red maple, scarlet maple, swamp maple, Acer rubrum]
Definition of 'Swamp maple'
From: GCIDE
- Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. [1913 Webster]
- Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). [1913 Webster]
- Swamp blackbird. (Zool.) See Redwing (b) .
- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
- Swamp deer (Zool.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India.
- Swamp hen. (Zool.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); -- called also little swamp hen. (c) The European purple gallinule.
- Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea viscosa} syn. Rhododendron viscosa or {Rhododendron viscosum}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle.
- Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook.
- Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie.
- Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
- Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple.
- Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak ({Quercus bicolor}), swamp post oak (Quercus lyrata).
- Swamp ore (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
- Swamp partridge (Zool.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges.
- Swamp robin (Zool.), the chewink.
- Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (Magnolia glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet bay}.
- Swamp sparrow (Zool.), a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or Melospiza palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places.
- Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'swamp 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]