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box elder
noun
- a North American maple, Acer negundo, having light gray-brown bark, pinnate, coarsely toothed leaves, and dry, winged fruit, cultivated as a shade tree, and yielding a light, soft wood used in making furniture, woodenware, etc.
box elder
noun
- a medium-sized fast-growing widely cultivated North American maple, Acer negundo , which has compound leaves with lobed leaflets Also calledash-leaved maple
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of box elder1
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90
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Invasive shothole borers have sickened at least 65 varieties of SoCal urban trees — such as box elders, maples, willows, sycamores, oaks and cottonwoods — by infesting them with their primary food source, fusarium fungus.
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The canyon is filled with box elders that had not yet leafed out, and above us sandstone cliffs soared like skyscrapers.
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It looks similar to the box elder bug that’s commonly found in Colorado.
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On his list: Using a chainsaw to make a backyard sculpture of a bodybuilder out of the trunk of a dead box elder tree.
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About to leave, I stood outside chatting with Sidnee while she squashed a couple of box elder bugs.
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