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snakebark maple

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Noun

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snakebark maple (plural snakebark maples)

  1. Any maple tree belonging to the section Acer sect. Macrantha, with distinctive patterned bark.
    • 2014, Allen J. Coombes, The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees:
      Another snakebark maple grown for its striped bark, 'White Tigress', is probably a hybrid of this species.

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