bird's-eye maple

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   maple wood having a wavy grain with eyelike markings

   Broadermaple

Questions about bird's-eye maple

What does bird's-eye maple mean?

bird's-eye maple means "maple wood having a wavy grain with eyelike markings".

Is bird's-eye maple a common word?

bird's-eye maple 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.