acer rubrum

1. 1.

   maple of eastern and central America; five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn

   Synonymsred maplescarlet mapleswamp maple

   Broadermaple

Questions about acer rubrum

What does acer rubrum mean?

acer rubrum means "maple of eastern and central America; five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn".

What is another word for acer rubrum?

Close synonyms include red maple, scarlet maple, swamp maple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acer rubrum a common word?

acer rubrum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.