poplar
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English
Etymology
From Middle English popler, from Anglo-Norman popler and Old French poplier (compare French peuplier), from Latin pōpulus, with a suffix later added.
Pronunciation
Noun
poplar (countable and uncountable, plural poplars)
- Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.
- 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 285:
- They are gathered under the low-hanging branches of a poplar, its gold and green leaves glittering on the breeze like tinsel.
- (uncountable) Wood from the poplar tree.
Derived terms
- American poplar (Populus tremuloides; Liriodendron tulipifera)
- aspen poplar (Populus tremuloides)
- balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera; Populus sect. Tacamahaca)
- bay poplar (Nyssa aquatica)
- black Italian poplar (Populus serotina)
- black poplar (Populus nigra)
- blue poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Carolina poplar (Populus deltoides, Populus balsamifera, etc.)
- downy poplar (Populus heterophylla)
- Eugene poplar (Populus canadensis eugenei)
- Euphrates poplar (Populus euphratica)
- grey poplar, grey poplar (Populus canescens)
- hickory poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Italian poplar (Populus nigra italica)
- Japanese poplar, Korean poplar (Populus suaveolens)
- Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra italica)
- Mongolian poplar (Populus suaveolens)
- necklace poplar (Populus deltoides)
- pink poplar (Euroschinus falcatus)
- Plains poplar (Populus sargentii)
- Poplar Bluff
- poplar borer
- Poplarism
- river poplar (Populus balsamifera
- silver-leaved poplar, silver leaved poplar, silver poplar (Populus alba)
- soft poplar (Populus grandidentata)
- swamp poplar (Populus heterophylla)
- trembling poplar (Populus tremula, Populus tremuloides)
- tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- water poplar (Populus deltoides, Populus nigra, etc.)
- western balsam poplar (Populus trichocarpa)
- white poplar (Populus alba)
- willow poplar (Populus nigra)
- yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Translations
any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus
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Further reading
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
poplar m pl
Turkish
Noun
poplar
- nominative plural of pop