What is the meaning of Maple?

A small tree, Acer campestre, known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.

1. Often preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of the genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood; especially the sugar maple (Acer saccharum) native to North America which has brightly coloured autumn foliage and is the primary source of maple syrup.

   Often preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of the genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood; especially the sugar maple (Acer saccharum) native to North America which has brightly coloured autumn foliage and is the primary source of maple syrup.

   Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of a genus other than Acer which has an appearance or wood similar to an Acer tree.

   Wood of an Acer tree, valued for its attractive appearance and hardness; also, similar wood from a tree of a genus other than Acer; a particular type of such wood.

   The light-brown colour of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 1.3).

   The flavour of maple syrup made from the sap of a maple tree, or an imitation of that flavour.

   Short for maple pea (“the field pea (Pisum sativum subsp. arvense) which has brown, speckled seeds used dry rather than fresh; a seed of this plant”).

   Of the light-brown colour of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 1.3).

   Of the flavour of, or made with, maple syrup.

   Synonym of mapau (“any of several trees of New Zealand, especially in the genus Myrsine”).

   alternative form of mapel

   maple syrup

   a maple tree

   an egg carton

   Source: wiktionary.org