Definition of "sugar-tree" []

• Any tree from which sugar-syrup or sugary sap can be obtained; particularly, the sugar-maple. See maple. (noun)
• An Australian shrub or small tree, Myoporum platycarpum. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "His axe would flash and bite into a sugar-tree or sycamore, and down it would come."
• "To-morrow he would take Juba and the horses and the child and go down into the valley; not back to the sugar-tree and that yet smouldering pyre, but to the woods on this side of the stream."
• "Oh, the clear stream, and the sugar-tree, and the cabin!"