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Red maple   /rɛd mˈeɪpəl/   Listen
Red maple

noun
1.
Maple of eastern and central America; five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn.  Synonyms: Acer rubrum, scarlet maple, swamp maple.






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"Red maple" Quotes from Famous Books



... (613) 238-5720; there are US Consulates General in Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, and Vancouver Flag: three vertical bands of red (hoist side), white (double width, square), and red with a red maple leaf centered in the ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... wheat was all of an emerald richness, and the blue mountains afar off so near akin to the aspect of heaven that one might hardly mark where the horizon line merged the sweet solitudes of earth into the solitary sky. Many a day, the spring, loitering along the shadow-flecked vistas, with the red maple-blooms overhead and violets underfoot, was the only traveler to be seen on the deserted road. And the pensive dusk was wont to deepen into the serene vernal night, sweet with the scent of the budding wild cherry, and astir with timorous tentative rustlings as of half-fledged ...
— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock

... Betsy had found up by the brook under the big red maple-tree. She had found there a certainty that, whatever else she did, she must NOT hurt Aunt Frances's feelings—dear, gentle, sweet Aunt Frances, whose feelings were so easily hurt and who had given her so many years ...
— Understood Betsy • Dorothy Canfield

... open door the rain fell heavily; he heard it beating softly on the roof and dripping down upon the smooth square stone before the threshold. A red maple leaf was washed in from the path and lay a wet bit of colour upon the floor. "I wonder where old man Levi is?" he ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

... away, and stood looking curiously about the illuminated room. Purple asters and red maple-leaves filled the jar on the table; on a shelf against the wall stood a lamp, the kettle, a little pile of cups and saucers. The canvas chairs ...
— Summer • Edith Wharton



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