Definition of "maple-tree" [maple-tree]

• Same as maple, 1. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Win McNamee/Getty Images Lockheed Martin engineer David Sharp showing off the 'Samarai Flyer,' whose design was inspired by the winged maple-tree seeds that flutter to the ground each autumn."
• "Notwithstanding the bad weather, the settlers renewed their stores of different things, stone-pine almonds, rhizomes, syrup from the maple-tree, for the vegetable part; rabbits from the warren, agouties, and kangaroos for the animal part."
• "Behind the maple-tree, the wood began again; without a syllable, she stepped aside, suffered him to pass, and hastened to bury herself in its recesses."