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sugarbush

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Definition of sugarbush

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Canada, US)A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
    “Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack”
    “Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.”
    “In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.”
    “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 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1878569783&id=E49tv0IUbzwC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&ots=NgTARD3OW6&dq=sugarbush+maple&sig=Jd72oibGUPlSUo6EOGJfaOvspgM The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.”
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noun

  1. (Canada, US)A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
    “Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack”
    “Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.”
    “In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.”
    “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 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1878569783&id=E49tv0IUbzwC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&ots=NgTARD3OW6&dq=sugarbush+maple&sig=Jd72oibGUPlSUo6EOGJfaOvspgM The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.”
  2. Protea repens (common sugarbush)
  3. Protea spp.

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Etymology

From sugar + bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.

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