maple syrup
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- noun
- /ˈmeɪpəl ˈsɪrəp/
:
jarabe de arce
- He always keeps a bottle of maple syrup handy for his French toast on weekends.
- produce maple syrup
- maple syrup production
I had pancakes and Maple syrup with bacon on the top.
- I had pancakes and Maple syrup with bacon on the top.
- So we have some Maple syrup and butter spheres.
- So we're doing a corn dog and Maple syrup, which is very Canadian.
- It was, it was water and Maple syrup and lemon juice.
- And eggs and, and pure Maple syrup for a sweetener.
- Lakeside Maple specializes in trail mix baked with pure Maple syrup.
- And I saw them pour, they had like a, a big jug of Maple syrup and they just went like this is all Maple syrup.
Examples
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Put some maple syrup on the ham.
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Top it off with powdered sugar, Maple syrup, and a little bit of cinnamon and butter.
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- My mom wanted extra maple syrup.
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I have the best maple syrup ever.
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We got maple syrup right here.
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I was raised on maple syrup, you know.
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That is pure Canadian maple syrup!
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I had pancakes and Maple syrup with bacon on the top.
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"An accountant, huh?" Molly drizzled some maple syrup on her pancakes.
Fiction book (1995) -
The fruits taste something like sweet potato with maple syrup and are filling and nutritious.
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Synonyms
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Thick sweet liquid used to make food or drink taste better
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A thick dark sweet liquid made by boiling sugar cane or beet juice
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A sweet thick liquid made from corn that you use to make food sweeter and thicker
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A sweet, thick chocolate sauce for pouring on desserts and mixing into drinks
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A sweet liquid made by boiling sugar and water
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A thick light brown syrup made from sugar for cakes and pancakes
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Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet, thick syrup made from the sap of maple trees' is transparently built from 'maple' (a tree) + 'syrup' (a thick sweet liquid), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer this compound noun's referent. This is a straightforward compositional noun–noun compound and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically (e.g., French 'sirop d'érable', Spanish 'jarabe de arce'), supporting immediate comprehension at B1.
Etymology
Maple syrup comes from a simple image: people tap a maple tree, collect the 'sap' that runs out in spring, and boil it down until it becomes a sweet syrup. That's why the words now mean the sweet, thick topping we put on pancakes.