From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), noun [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus {Acer}, including about fifty species. {Acer saccharinum} is the {rock maple}, or {sugar maple}, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the {red maple} or {swamp maple} is {Acer rubrum}; the {silver maple}, {Acer dasycarpum}, having fruit wooly when young; the {striped maple}, {Acer Pennsylvanium}, called also {moosewood}. The common maple of Europe is {Acer campestre}, the {sycamore maple} is {Acer Pseudo-platanus}, and the {Norway maple} is {Acer platanoides}.
Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
{Bird's-eye maple}, {Curled maple}, varieties of the wood of the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
{Maple honey}, {Maple molasses}, {Maple syrup}, or {Maple sirup}, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
{Maple sugar}, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
2: any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Maple A {symbolic mathematics} package by B. Char, K. Geddes, G. Gonnet, M. Monagan and S. Watt of the {University of Waterloo}, Canada and {ETH} Zurich, Switzerland in 1980. Version: Maple V. E-mail: . Mailing list: glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu. (1994-10-21)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Maple, NC Zip code(s): 27956 Maple, TX Zip code(s): 79344 Maple, WI Zip code(s): 54854
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