bird's-eye maple

English

Alternative forms
  • birdseye maple
  • birds eye maple
  • birds-eye maple
  • bird's eye maple

Noun

bird's-eye maple (uncountable)

  1. Maple wood with small eye-like markings, valued for use in decorative woodwork.
    • 1976, Angela Carter, ‘My Father's House’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 21:
      More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.
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