From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
maple
n 1: wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard
close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially
for furniture and flooring
2: any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing
winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol;
akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G.
massholder.] (Bot.)
A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species.
Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple,
from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in
great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or {swamp
maple} is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, {Acer
dasycarpum}, having fruit wooly when young; the {striped
maple}, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The
common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the {sycamore
maple} is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is
Acer platanoides.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Bird's-eye maple, Curled maple, varieties of the wood of
the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is
produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
Maple honey, Maple molasses, Maple syrup, or {Maple
sirup}, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
by evaporation.
[1913 Webster]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
Maple
A symbolic mathematics package by B. Char, K. Geddes,
G. Gonnet, M. Monagan and S. Watt of the {University of
Waterloo}, Canada and ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 1980.
Version: Maple V.
E-mail: <wmsi@daisy.waterloo.edu>. Mailing list:
glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu.
(1994-10-21)