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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

maple
     n 1: wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard
          close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used esp for
          furniture and flooring
     2: any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing
        winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Maple \Ma"ple\, 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.
   A. 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 or swamp maple is A.
   rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit
   wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium,
   called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A.
   campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and
   the Norway maple is A. platanoides.

   Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
         a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.

   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, or Maple sirup, maple sap
      boiled to the consistency of molasses.

   Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
      by evaporation.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

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: <<a href="mailto:wmsi@daisy.waterloo.edu">wmsi@daisy.waterloo.edu>.  Mailing list:
   glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu.

   (1994-10-21)

Source: U.S. Gazetteer (1990) 

Maple, NC
  Zip code(s): 27956
Maple, TX
  Zip code(s): 79344
Maple, WI
  Zip code(s): 54854