mapletree

plural mapletrees

1. alternativeAlternative form of maple tree.

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   The looper caterpillar has been very abundant on beech and mapletrees. A few specimens of the cottony mapletree scale insect [Pulvinaria innumerabilis Rathv.] have appeared on maples, and another scale (Lecanium ? quercitronis) was found on ironwood leaves that had withered on the branch.[…]252 Mapletree borer, Plagionotus speciosus Say. Principal food plant: sugar mapletrees.[…]1042 Insects injurious to mapletrees: white marked tussock moth and forest tent-caterpillar (pl. 1 in special paper), leopard moth and maple sesian (pl. 2 in special paper), sugar maple borer, mapletree pruner and cottony mapletree scale insect (pl. 3 of special paper).

   1902, Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York, pages 144, 863, and 897

   In accordance with this theory, they explain Maplesden Sx as ‘denn of the mapletree’, EPNS VII (1930), 453.[…]If -ra stands for -re, not for -or, -er, the 1st el. may be the gen. sg. of mapuldor f. ‘mapletree’. Hence, ‘the mapletree trunk’.[…]Only one landmark, edles pyt, separates it from ‘the mapletree west of Assundene’.

   1940, Erik Tengstrand, A Contribution to the Study of Genitival Composition in Old English Place-names, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-a.-b., pages XXXIX, 111, and 231

   “You must have heard” – addressed the stranger – “about the blight that has struck our mapletrees. Terrible. Some little fly has attacked our mapletrees. The papers are full of it. A real blight. Right at the core of our mapletrees. They’ve written a song about it.”[…]Stefan emptied his glass and, paprika-red, declared that the authorities, apparently inspired by the Baron, had turned the mapletree into a kind of local totem.

   1995, P.E.N. Israel 1995: A Collection of Recent Writing in Israel, P.E.N. Israel, pages 88–89