maple

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

maple
    n 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 Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [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}.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
         a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
         [1913 Webster]

   {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.
      [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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: <[email protected]>.  Mailing list:
   [email protected].

   (1994-10-21)