box elder

Examples

• All

• The yellow sawtooth leaves of young elms lined the gutters, and the sidewalks were drifted over with the sweet bronze dust of crushed ash and box elder.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Though we climbed every tree big enough to hold us, our favorite was the giant, thick-stumped box elder that towered above the irrigation ditch in the front of our yard.

  Fiction book (2001)

• We watched from the top of the box elders; the breeze turned the high limbs.

  Fiction book (1990)

• He stopped right under us on the path and examined the scuff marks on the soft bark of the box elder trees.

  Fiction book (1990)

• They also weakly preferred ash, river birch, and box elder.

  Academic text (2016)

• I turned my head to the side so that Martin wouldn't see me cry, and I noticed a box elder, our sole witness, perched on a gentle slope.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The avid detailing and cross-stitch of purpose and action, the thrust of sudden emotion, the midnight cry, the lost child waiting out the rain under a box elder tree.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The titan had nailed a book, opened to a schematic drawing of a schooner, to a box elder tree near the dockyard.

  Fiction book (1990)

• At the Busch Wildlife Area west of St. Louis, box elder, greenbriar, and trumpet creeper popped up bright green against the dark, wet gloss of mud on the forest floor.

  Academic text (1993)

• The shade provided by the large box elder trees was perfect for our picnic on a hot summer day.

Synonyms

A

Acer negundo

vsbox elder

• Specialized

9.1

A fast-growing maple tree called box elder that is often planted for shade

is the common, fast growing shade tree name rather than the scientific label

A

ash-leaved maple

vsbox elder

• US

8.1

A maple tree with leaves made of several small leaflets like an ash tree

focuses on fast growth and common use as a shade tree

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology