mapletree

Alternative form of maple tree.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of maple tree.
    • The looper caterpillar has been very abundant on beech and mapletrees. A few specimens of the cottony mapletree scale insect [Pulvinaria innumerabilis Rathv.] have appeared on maples, and another scale (Lecanium ?...
    • In accordance with this theory, they explain Maplesden Sx as ‘denn of the mapletree’, EPNS VII (1930), 453.[…]If -ra stands for -re, not for -or, -er, the 1st el. may be the gen. sg. of mapuldor f. ‘mapletree’. Hence,...
    • “You must have heard” – addressed the stranger – “about the blight that has struck our mapletrees. Terrible. Some little fly has attacked our mapletrees. The papers are full of it. A real blight. Right at the core of...

Forms

mapletrees