maple family

noun

1. the plant family Aceraceae, typified by trees and shrubs having sweet sap, simple opposite leaves usually lobed or toothed, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a double-winged nutlet, and including maples and the box elder.

Example Sentences

This is a very delicate wood, of the maple family; it probably derives its name from its resemblance to folds of satin.

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The silver maple is considered the most graceful of the large and handsome maple family.

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Then you may be sure that the tree is one of the maple family.

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In the maple family there is a broad, simple blade, about as wide as it is long.

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Nor does it usually compound for this by splendour of autumnal colour, as so many of the maple family do.

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