DCHP-3

false sugar maple

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

Quotations

1863
Only a few trees of the false sugar maple, from which the Indians make a coarse kind of sugar, being found in certain places [on the prairies].