bastard maple

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a deciduous tree, Acer negundo, common in western Canada; box elder.

Quotations

1800

We made sugar of the bastard maple.

1873

In some of the serpentine bends the bastard maple lifts its gnarled trunk. . . .

1951

[it was] sweetened with sugar from the bastard maple.