silver maple

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   a common North American maple tree; five-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood

   SynonymsAcer saccharinum

   Broadermaple

Questions about silver maple

What does silver maple mean?

silver maple means "a common North American maple tree; five-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood".

What is another word for silver maple?

Close synonyms include Acer saccharinum. 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 silver maple a common word?

silver 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.