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poplar
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Word definitions for poplar in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poplar \Pop"lar\, n. [OE. popler, OF. poplier, F. peuplier, fr. L. populus poplar.] (Bot.) 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Anglo-French popler , from Old French poplier (13c., Modern French peulplier ), from Latin populus "poplar" (with a long "o;" not the same word that produced popular ), of unknown origin, possibly from a PIE tree-name root *p(y)el- (cognates: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various deciduous trees of the genus ''Populus''.
Usage examples of poplar.
Dandelion, Gentian and Valerian for some reason have survived and the Homeopaths use many more, but such useful plants as Agrimony, Slippery Elm, Horehound, Bistort, Poplar, Bur Marigold, Wood Betony, Wood Sanicle, Wild Carrot, Raspberry leaves, and the Sarsaparillas are now only used by Herbalists.
Myrtle was sitting in the room long known as the Study, or the Library, when Master Byles Gridley called at The Poplars to see her.
Gifted lived there with his Susan,--and what had happened might happen again,--and gave Master Byles Gridley a formal and most persuasively worded invitation to come up and make his home with them at The Poplars.
The sun still dappled through the branches of the huge old poplars the way it always had, and the hedges of caragana and lilac and cotoneaster were just as familiar.
Amongst the soft green pods of a kind of poplar chafers buzzed, and numbers of their little brown bodies were strewn on the path.
Now it was as though some vandal had hurled cheap emulsion at the canvas: the arterial red leaves of a low-lying maple branch streaked violently from one bank to another, and on the far side, little poplar leaves the exact color of twenty-four carat gold lay strewn over the boulders like pirate treasure.
The stretch of material from the heterochronic egg was spliced to the proper segment of embryonic stem tissue DNA from a space poplar.
Bram started to explain his part in the new project to provide the space poplar with heterochronic genes that might lead to a new, self-replicating organism at the embryonic stage.
Show Bizniss, which Ive stroven to ornyment, is bein usurpt by Poplar Lecturs, as thay air kalled, tho in my pinion thay air Poplar humbugs.
Adorned and beautified with the flowing bitter Oliue, Lawrell, white Poplar, and Lisimachia, blacke Pople, Alders, and wilde Ashe.
That Friday Dorothy drove the two girls over to Poplar Bluff to get Betty Raye some new glasses.
Spring, With runlets cold to draw and drink, And a great meadow blossoming, Long-grassed, and poplars in a ring, To rest me by the brink.
The White or Aspen Poplar is a common tree, and contains active principles termed Populin and Salicin, both of which are tonic.
His car was parked between the poplars, a little down the road, in the direction in which Monsieur Souche had found the clochard.
Previs to cumin over hear I tawt my organist how to grind Rule Brittany and other airs which is poplar on British Sile.