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bastard maple 
a deciduous tree, Acer negundo, common in western Canada; box elder.
See also: Manitoba maple
- 1800 (1897) We made sugar of the bastard maple.
- 1873 (1904) In some of the serpentine bends the bastard maple lifts its gnarled trunk. . . .
- 1951 [it was] sweetened with sugar from the bastard maple.
- 1800 (1897) We made sugar of the bastard maple.