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Acer saccharum

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Noun1.Acer saccharumAcer saccharum - 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
rock maple, sugar maple
maple - any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone


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Maple syrup is made from the spring-running sap of Acer saccharum, or the sugar maple tree.
A SYRUPY JOURNEY FROM SAPPY TO SUBLIME by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Within the genus or family of maple trees, for instance, a red maple is Acer rubrum and a sugar maple is Acer saccharum.
Trees, environment, and genes: in the evolutionary battle to survive ... by Moll, Gary / American Forests
Researchers kept up a running battle over whether the western Oklahoma trees were Acer saccharum or Acer grandidentatum, the bigtooth maple of the southern Rockies some 300 miles to the west.
The time-warp trees of Comanche country by Lantz, Gary / American Forests
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