See also: sugar bush

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Etymology

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From sugar +‎ bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.

Noun

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sugarbush (plural sugarbushes)

  1. (Canada, US) A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
    Alternative form: sugar bush
    Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack
    Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.
    In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.
    • 1999, U.S. Congress, NOx State Implementation Plans: hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety [1]
      Indeed, acid rain has long been pointed to as the culprit in the diminished productivity and value of northern Maine and Vermont sugarbush (maple syrup producing trees).
    • 2001, Howard Paap, Northern Land: Life with the Ojibwe [2]
      The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.
    • 2006, Elaine Elliot, Maple Syrup [3]
      Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.
  2. Protea repens (common sugarbush)
  3. Protea spp.

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References

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  • sugarbush”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.