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say it: MAY-puhl
maple is a noun meaning "wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring". It is pronounced /ˈmeɪpəl/ — MAY-puhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for maple come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.