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poplar tree

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

Usage examples of "poplar tree".

If I had my way, we'd string every one of 'em to a poplar tree, and right quick.

Piggy were companionably nose-and-tailing it under the poplar tree, showing no signs now of agitation.

The next day at work, alone with the half-gnawed poplar tree, he produced a small note-pad and short pencil, envelope and stamp which he had managed to smuggle out of the house without Hilda noticing.

Across the road, the barn and a lone poplar tree were gaunt-limned silhouettes in charcoal.

Kyla rocked listlessly in the swing that hung from the largest poplar tree.

One day at about this time Lady Agnew, who lived opposite in Northmoor Road, told him that she was nervous about a large poplar tree in the road.

He washed again, drank some more ale, seated himself in the shade of an old poplar tree, and waited for the sickness to pass.

The wean was white-skinned as Claire, but with the sickly blue-white cast of skimmed milk, not Claire's pale glow, rich and grainless as the silk-white heartwood of a poplar tree.

O watched the slow birth of pale dawn, trailing its mist along the clusters of asters outside at the foot of her window, until finally a poplar tree appeared.

Something went overhead in a tearing rising-pitch whistle and exploded behind them, sending a poplar tree shape of dirt into die air.

Daisies, the bark of a poplar tree that I saw a squirrel eating, and puffballs.

At the same moment, while he was still reversed in his attitude, there was more light, and he saw, as it were, a copy of the tall poplar tree on the hill drawn in black on the wall of the barn.