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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Canada, US) A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring..
Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack
Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.
In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.
Indeed, acid rain has long been pointed to as the culprit in the diminished productivity and value of northern Maine and Vermont sugarbush (maple syrup producing trees).
2001, Howard Paap, Northern Land: Life with the Ojibwe http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1878569783&id=E49tv0IUbzwC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&ots=NgTARD3OW6&dq=sugarbush+maple&sig=Jd72oibGUPlSUo6EOGJfaOvspgM The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.
Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.
Use sugar bush when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sugar bush means (Canada, US) A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack
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