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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wood of any of several maples, such as a red maple or a silver maple, being less hard and lighter in color than hard maple.
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- noun A
red maple , Acer rubrum
Etymologies
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From the weakness of its wood relative to other maples.
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