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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