box elder

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See also: boxelder

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box elder (countable and uncountable, plural box elders)

  1. Acer negundo, a North American maple.
    • 1845, J C Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
      We crossed during the morning a number of hollows, timbered principally with box elder, (acer negundo,) poplar, and elm.
    • 1895, J W Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
      The little valleys nestling along the streams are diversified by bordering willows, clumps of box elder, and small groves of cottonwood.

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