Meaning of bird's-eye maple | Babel Free

Definitions

Maple wood with small eye-like markings, valued for use in decorative woodwork.

uncountable

Examples

“So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match.”

“The two staterooms are similarly treated; the walls are panelled in bird's eye maple, with light mahogany mouldings, and the furniture is in sycamore and mahogany.”

“More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.”

CEFR level