bird's-eye maple

English

Alternative forms

• birdseye maple
• birds eye maple
• birds-eye maple
• bird's eye maple

Noun

bird's-eye maple (uncountable)

1. Maple wood with small eye-like markings, valued for use in decorative woodwork.
   • 1976, Angela Carter, ‘My Father's House’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 21:

     More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.