sugarbush
See also: sugar bush
English
Etymology
sugar + bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.
Noun
sugarbush (plural sugarbushes)
- A grove of maple trees.
- 1999, U.S. Congress, NOx State Implementation Plans: hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety [1]
- Indeed, acid rain has long been pointed to as the culprit in the diminished productivity and value of northern Maine and Vermont sugarbush (maple syrup producing trees).
- 2001, Howard Paap, Northern Land: Life with the Ojibwe [2]
- The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.
- 2006, Elaine Elliot, Maple Syrup [3]
- Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.
- 1999, U.S. Congress, NOx State Implementation Plans: hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety [1]
Translations
grove of maples
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