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Noun: silver maple
  1. 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
    "Silver maple leaves shimmer in the breeze";
    - Acer saccharinum

Derived forms: silver maples

Type of: maple

Encyclopedia: Silver maple