mountain maple

1. 1.

   small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in autumn

   Synonymsmountain alderAcer spicatum

   Broadermaple

Questions about mountain maple

What does mountain maple mean?

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

What is another word for mountain maple?

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

mountain 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.