Meaning of sugarbush | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
   Canada, US
2. Protea repens (common sugarbush)
3. Protea spp.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer⟳ some protection to the syrup and the boiler.”

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