SILVER MAPLE

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Meaning:

A common North American maple tree; five-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood

Synonyms:

Acer saccharinum; silver maple

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("silver maple" is a kind of...):

maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)

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