sugarbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarbushes
Etymology: From sugar + bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack
text: Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.
text: In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.
text: 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).
ref: 1999, U.S. Congress, NOx State Implementation Plans: hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0160606748&id=zB0xrjRFjT8C&q=sugarbush+maple&dq=sugarbush+maple&pgis=1
text: 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.
text: Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.
ref: 2006, Elaine Elliot, Maple Syrup http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN088780697X&id=vt4_fhFTbt8C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=BmfhDZmEgM&dq=sugarbush+maple&sig=lW6_ddQPMID-HehrnePAt3p7llA#PPA1,M1
related: word: sugar bush
glosses: A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
glosses: Protea repens (common sugarbush)
glosses: Protea spp.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Protea dracomontana
word: Drakensberg sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea glabra
word: Clanwilliam sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea inopina
word: large-nut sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea nubigena
word: cloud sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea parvula
word: dainty sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea petiolaris
word: sickle-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea rupicola
word: krantz sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea simplex
word: dwarf grassland sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea enervis
word: Chimanimani sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea angolensis
word: woodland sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea comptonii
word: saddleback sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea curvata
word: Barberton sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea laetans
word: Blyde sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea madiensis
word: tall woodland sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea rubropilosa
word: Transvaal sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea rupestris
word: rocket sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea gaguedi
word: African sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea welwitschii
word: dwarf savanna sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea asymmetrica
word: Inyanga sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea wentzeliana
word: Wentzel's sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea pruinosa
word: frosted sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea scabriuscula
word: hoary sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea scolopendriifolia
word: hart's-tongue-fern sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea burchellii
word: Burchell's sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea compacta
word: Bot River sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea eximia
word: broad-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea longifolia
word: long-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea obtusifolia
word: limestone sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea pudens
word: bashful sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea roupelliae
word: silver sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea susannae
word: stink-leaf sugarbush
word: Ladismith sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea aristata
word: Ladysmith sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea lanceolata
word: lance-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea repens
word: common sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea coronata
word: green sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea grandiceps
word: red sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea holosericea
word: saw-edge sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea laurifolia
word: gray-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea lepidocarpodendron
word: black-beard sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea lorifolia
word: strap-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea magnifica
word: queen sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea neriifolia
word: narrow-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea speciosa
word: brown-beard sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea aurea
word: common shuttlecock sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea lacticolor
word: Hottentot sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea mundii
word: forest sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea punctata
word: water sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea subvestita
word: waterlily sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea acaulos
word: common ground sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea convexa
word: large-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea laevis
word: smooth-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea revoluta
word: rolled-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea angustata
word: Kleinmond sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea foliosa
word: leafy sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea intonsa
word: tufted sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea montana
word: Swartberg sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea tenax
word: tenacious sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea vogtsiae
word: Kouga sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea acuminata
word: blackrim sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea canaliculata
word: groove-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea nana
word: mountain-rose sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea pityphylla
word: Ceres sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea scolymocephala
word: thistle sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea witzenbergiana
word: swan sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea effusa
word: Marloth's sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea namaquana
word: Kamiesberg sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea pendula
word: arid sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea recondita
word: hidden sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea sulphurea
word: sulphur sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea caespitosa
word: bishop sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea aspera
word: rough-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea denticulata
word: tooth-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea lorea
word: thong-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea piscina
word: Visgat sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea restionifolia
word: reed-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea scabra
word: sandpaper-leaf sugarbush
taxonomic: Protea scorzonerifolia
word: channel-leaf sugarbush
Related terms: sugarhouse
sugar shack
maple syrup
wood lot