The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poplar \Pop"lar\, n. [OE. popler, OF. poplier, F. peuplier, fr. L. populus poplar.] (Bot.)
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Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.
Note: The aspen poplar is Populus tremula and Populus tremuloides; Balsam poplar is Populus balsamifera; Lombardy poplar ( Populus dilatata) is a tall, spiry tree; white poplar is Populus alba.
The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar. [U.S.]
Wiktionary
n. ''Populus alba'', a poplar found in Central Europe.
WordNet
n. a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces [syn: white aspen, abele, aspen poplar, silver-leaved poplar, Populus alba]
light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer [syn: tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, yellow poplar]
Wikipedia
White poplar is a common name used to refer to several trees in the genus Populus:
- Populus alba, native to Eurasia
- Populus grandidentata, bigtooth aspen
- Populus tremuloides, American aspen
- Populus tomentosa, Chinese white poplar
Usage examples of "white poplar".
Hades also brought a daughter of Oceanus to his kingdom, one Leuce, who died a natural death and became a white poplar, the tree of the Elysian Fields.
While still walking on, his attention was attracted to a comparatively open place in the woods, where, at some previous period, a severe fire had killed all the smaller trees, and consumed the underbrush, which had been replaced by scattering shrubs of the white poplar intermingled with a plentiful growth of the black-raspberry, whose luscious fruit—.
In the silence a jay pitched in the tree above their heads, a white poplar: it peered down, and seeing what they were flew off again with a harsh chattering.