vine maple

1. 1.

   small maple of northwestern North America having prostrate stems that root freely and form dense thickets

   SynonymsAcer circinatum

   Broadermaple

Questions about vine maple

What does vine maple mean?

vine maple means "small maple of northwestern North America having prostrate stems that root freely and form dense thickets".

What is another word for vine maple?

Close synonyms include Acer circinatum. 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 vine maple a common word?

vine 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.