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Definition of Acer spicatum
1. Noun. Small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in autumn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acer Spicatum
Literary usage of Acer spicatum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The Mountain Maple (Acer spicatum, Lam.) is usually shrubby in habit; very rarely
it reaches 3o feet in height, and a maximum trunk diameter of 6 to 8 ..."
2. The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore by Ernest Thompson Seton (1921)
"(Acer spicatum) A shrub or small tree, rarely 30 feet high. Wood soft, pale and
light, a cubic foot weighs 33 Ibs. Leaves 4 to 5 inches along. ..."
3. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"For a number of years and until quite recently the drug sold as cramp bark was
not derived from V. opulus at all, but from the mountain maple, Acer spicatum ..."
4. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"Acer spicatum; Cnicus benedictus; Viburnum prunifolium. ... Acer spicatum (Farwell,
1913, and others). The whole early literature is highly typical of the ..."
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