Definition of "red maple" []

• A medium-sized eastern North American maple (Acer rubrum) having reddish twigs and buds. (noun)

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• "He looked back to make sure I was following, then stopped at a place from which we could see bags marked with red maple leaves travelling upwards on an endless belt of bag-sized ledges, only to be tumbled off the top and be manhandled by two smoothly swinging muscular workers."