maple

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A tree with broad leaves and winged seeds, common in cooler regions.

   In autumn the maple in their garden turns bright red.

2. 2
   noun

   The hard, attractive wood of the maple tree.

   This kitchen table is made of solid maple.

From Middle English mapel, from Old English *mapul (attested in mapultrēow and mapulder), from Proto-West Germanic *mapul. See also Old Saxon mapulder, Old High German mazaltra, mazzaltra; also Old Norse mǫpurr, Middle Low German mapeldorn, dialectal Dutch meppel, German Masseller, Maßholder; also Old English mæsen (“maple”), Old Norse mǫsurr (“maple”), German Maser (“knob, offshoot”); also German Mase (“scar”), modern Maser (“speck, measle”). More at measles.

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