The North American tree Acer saccharinum, which yields maple-sugar.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v. Maple, The sugar maple … grows to sixty or eighty foot high.
1773. W. Lewis, trans. Neumann’s Chem. Wks. (ed. 2), II. 72, note. A kind of Sugar is prepared from the juice which issues upon wounding or boring certain species of the maple-tree, one of which is named from hence the Sugar-maple.
1851. E. Forbes, Veg. World, in Art Jrnl. Ill. Catal., p. vii. The wood of the sugar maple of Canada is the bird’s-eye and also curled maple of the cabinet-maker.
1868. Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869), 198. The black sugar maple (Acer saccharinum, var. nigrum).
1883. Encycl. Brit., XV. 524/1.
b. attrib., as sugar-maple land, tree; sugar-maple borer (see quot. 1882).
1792. Descr. Kentucky, 54. The settlers upon the sugar-maple lands.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVIII. 63/1. By transplanting the sugar maple-tree into a garden,… the quantity of the sap might be increased.
1882. Garden, 27 May, 370/3. The Sugar Maple borer (Glycobius speciosus), whose grubs are very injurious to Maples.
