bird's-eye maple

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A form of wood, chiefly of the sugar maple, that is patterned with small variations in the grain resembling eyes and is valued for decorative purposes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• See under maple.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun maple wood having a wavy grain with eyelike markings