sugarbush
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
Protea repens (common sugarbush)
Example Sentences
- "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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Inflected Forms
Phrases
Drakensberg sugarbush
Clanwilliam sugarbush
large-nut sugarbush
cloud sugarbush
dainty sugarbush
sickle-leaf sugarbush
krantz sugarbush
dwarf grassland sugarbush