Mapletree
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mapletree is a noun meaning Alternative form of maple tree.
Meaning
Alternative form of maple tree.
Example Sentences
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, ‘the mapletree trunk’.[…]Only one landmark, edles pyt, separates it from ‘the mapletree west of Assundene’.
“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 our mapletrees. They’ve written a song about it.”[…]Stefan emptied his glass and, paprika-red, declared that the authorities, apparently inspired by the Baron, had turned the mapletree into a kind of local totem.
Word Forms
- mapletrees
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include maple, appletree, planetree, peartree, broad-leaf.
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