swamp maple

noun

1. red maple.

Word History and Origins

Origin of swamp maple¹

An Americanism dating back to 1660–70

Example Sentences

An ideal resort for it is a grove of oak or swamp maple near a stream or pond where it can bathe.

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Again, the spring redness of the swamp maple is hardly less vivid than its mature coloring of the fall.

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Maple-swamps: We generally speak of the swamp-maple, which grows in low ground, and has particularly brilliant foliage in autumn.

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This domicile was built in a red or swamp maple, at an elevation of nearly thirty feet from the ground.

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A nest in the writer's collection, which was built in the summit of a common swamp maple, occupies a very anomalous position.

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