Japanese maple
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- noun
- /ˈdʒæpəˌniː ˈmeɪpəl/
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arce japonés
- In the park, the Japanese maple stands out among the other trees with its unique shape and color.
- Japanese maple leaves
- red Japanese maple
- Japanese maple tree
Here is a Japanese Maple tree and there's times of the year it's absolutely beautiful.
- Here is a Japanese Maple tree and there's times of the year it's absolutely beautiful.
- after times. It almost drives me crazy. But like right outside of my studio here is that Japanese Maple tree and.
Examples
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I don't know if you have enough room, but at my pool, the original builders created a 3-tiered terrace and planted a beautiful Bloodgood Japanese maple that is now quite tall.
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Many gardeners choose the Japanese maple for its beautiful, lobed leaves and graceful form.
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Here is a Japanese Maple tree and there's times of the year it's absolutely beautiful.
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Of the few Japanese maples I have left in the garden, it is by far my favorite at this time of the year because of its bright color.
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I love nothing more than pruning weeping Japanese maples.
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But the Japanese maple, even at full maturity like mine, has a very compact footprint, and if well trained, is beautiful to look at with or without leaves.
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We planted A Bloodgood Japanese Maple and a Gatsby Gal oak leaf hydrangea.
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Untended hedges soared above the line of his eye, and there, by the rock that had been a cliff to his childhood, stood a single Japanese maple, where once there had been two, a red one and a green one.
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When the house was first purchased, not long after my wasband and I married in April of 2004, my mother purchased this weeping Japanese maple for us from a nursery out in Clackamas County.
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The Japanese maple's vibrant red leaves create a stunning display in autumn.
Synonyms
A small garden tree from Japan and Korea with deeply cut leaves that turn bright red and orange in autumn
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward modifier + noun composition: 'Japanese' specifies origin/type and 'maple' names the tree, so the meaning ('a maple associated with Japan') is directly derivable from the parts. The nationality+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary English composition, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The noun Japanese maple names a type of maple tree that comes from Japan. Gardeners noticed its small size and pretty, hand-shaped leaves that turn bright colors in autumn, so the name came to mean 'a small decorative tree from Japan'.