acer spicatum

1. 1.

   small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in autumn

   Synonymsmountain maplemountain alder

   Broadermaple

Questions about acer spicatum

What does acer spicatum mean?

acer spicatum means "small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in autumn".

What is another word for acer spicatum?

Close synonyms include mountain maple, mountain alder. 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 spicatum a common word?

acer spicatum 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.