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bird-eye(d) maple

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a maple tree, Acer saccharum, found in Canada from Lake Superior eastward and commercially valuable for its hard wood and for its sap, which is used in making maple sugar and syrup; also, its wood.

See: bird's-eye maple,sugar maple

Quotations

1820

Of the maple there is white rock or curly, and bird-eye. . . .

1828

Five varieties of the sugar maple are met with . . . [including] the bird-eyed maple. . . .