Maple sugar : n : sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Maple \Ma"ple\, 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.
A. 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 or swamp maple is A.
rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit
wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium,
called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A.
campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and
the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
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, or Maple sirup, maple sap
boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
by evaporation.
