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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
poplar
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tree
▪ At the bottom of the hill, six poplar trees swayed, graceful as girls with their hair long.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A cloud of pigeons rose over the poplars, and scattered.
▪ Also look for hawk-moth caterpillars on apple, poplar and lime trees.
▪ Between the gates and the big double doors was half an acre of lawn; the driveway was lined by poplars.
▪ Here I am in Los Alamos, poplar hill.
▪ Nobody lives beyond that, and the track then crosses a temporary bridge of poplar logs lashed together.
▪ Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema.
▪ Street lights bouncing off a row of poplars lining the parking lot...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poplar

Poplar \Pop"lar\, n. [OE. popler, OF. poplier, F. peuplier, fr. L. populus poplar.] (Bot.)

  1. 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.

  2. The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar. [U.S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poplar

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: Greek pelea "elm"). Italian pioppo, Spanish chopo, German pappel, Old Church Slavonic topoli all are from Latin.

Wiktionary
poplar

n. Any of various deciduous trees of the genus ''Populus''.

WordNet
poplar
  1. n. soft light-colored nondurable wood of the poplar

  2. any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins [syn: poplar tree]

Gazetteer
Poplar, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 552
Housing Units (2000): 222
Land area (2000): 11.922486 sq. miles (30.879095 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.012900 sq. miles (0.033412 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.935386 sq. miles (30.912507 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63975
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 46.582014 N, 91.793712 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54864
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Poplar, WI
Poplar
Poplar, MT -- U.S. city in Montana
Population (2000): 911
Housing Units (2000): 350
Land area (2000): 0.267472 sq. miles (0.692750 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.267472 sq. miles (0.692750 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58975
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.109474 N, 105.194891 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59255
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Poplar, MT
Poplar
Poplar-Cotton Center, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 1496
Housing Units (2000): 367
Land area (2000): 1.275894 sq. miles (3.304549 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.275894 sq. miles (3.304549 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58191
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 36.053936 N, 119.144796 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Poplar-Cotton Center, CA
Poplar-Cotton Center
Poplar, CA
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Wikipedia
Poplar

Poplar may refer to:

Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)

Poplar was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Poplar district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Poplar (convenience store)

is a convenience store franchise chain in Japan.

There are 818 shops in the Chugoku, Kanto, Kansai, Kyushu, and Shikoku regions.

Poplar (PAT station)

Poplar is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. The street level stop is located in a densely populated residential area. Its primary purpose is to serve commuters within walking distance, providing access toward Downtown Pittsburgh, South Hills Village, or Library

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.