bird's-eye maple

English

Alternative forms
  • birdseye 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.
    • 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
      The two staterooms are similarly treated; the walls are panelled in bird's eye maple, with light mahogany mouldings, and the furniture is in sycamore and mahogany.
    • 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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