Definition of Acer spicatum

1. Noun. Small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in autumn.

Exact synonyms: Mountain Alder, Mountain Maple
Generic synonyms: Maple

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acer Spicatum

Acer argutum
Acer campestre
Acer circinatum
Acer glabrum
Acer japonicum
Acer macrophyllum
Acer negundo
Acer negundo Californicum
Acer palmatum
Acer pennsylvanicum
Acer platanoides
Acer pseudoplatanus
Acer rubrum
Acer saccharinum
Acer saccharum
Acer spicatum
Aceraceae
Aces
Acetobacter
Achab
Achaea
Achaean
Achaeans
Achaemenes
Achaemenian
Achaemenians
Achaemenid
Achaemenid Empire
Achaemenidae
Achaemenides

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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