Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several fast-growing deciduous trees of the genus Populus having unisexual flowers borne in catkins.
- n. The wood of these trees.
- n. See tulip tree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tree of the genus Populus; also, the wood of the tree. The poplars are trees of rapid growth, mostly of moderate size, producing varieties of light soft wood, useful for many purposes requiring lightness and moderate strength; in America the wood is largely converted into pulp for paper-making. Various species are planted for shade and ornament. The aspens and cottonwoods are true poplars, though less called by that name. See
asp , aspen, and cottonwood. - n. A tree of some other genus in some way resembling a poplar.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.
- n. U.S. The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also
white poplar .
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins
- n. soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman popler, from Old French poplier (French: peuplier), from Latin populus. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English popler, from Old French poplier, from pouple, from Latin pōpulus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That said, one of the easiest finishes I know about for hardwoods like poplar is Danish oil.”
The Washington Post: Applying finish to furniture with real luster
“At Gubbio, verdigris poplar is found in the papagallo's tail feathers: at Urbino it appears in the duke's monogram.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“The Lombardy poplar is another tree that should NEVER be planted in your yard under any circumstances!”
What Is It About Treehuggers Anyway? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
“I think the tulip poplar is actually a type of magnolia tree.”
“The white poplar is superior to the black, in that it dries more quickly and emits a greater heat.”
“In the wood-ways, the poplar is putting on "a bonnie green gown.”
“I’ll be happy to clarify if necessary. we ended up using pine. the poplar is a little more expensive, but it’s also a harder wood which should make it a little easier to work.”
“The poplar is the cow of the tree world: quick to bulk up and easy to cut down.”
“You called the poplar in the fields the ‘Tower of Babel,’ for you did not know or did not want to know that it was a poplar, and now it is swaying again without a name, and you would have to call it ‘When Noah Was Drunk.’”
Simon & Schuster: The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
“And the poplar was a forest, and the turtle was close.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poplar’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
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♥
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
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vocabulary
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je les adore!
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Trees!
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the omnibus
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Boroughs of London
My favorite city in the entire world. Includes former as well as current boroughs (tags indicate which). I've never lived there so undoubtedly some of these are wrong; main source is Wikipedia so t...
hillingdon, harrow, barnet, enfield, haringey, waltham forest, newham, redbridge, barking and dagenham, havering, bexley, greenwich and 95 more...
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London Underground Stations
Tagged with which London Underground line it is part of. Some are permanently closed and tagged as such. Some are open but have closed portions and are tagged "closed platforms."
Some ...woodside park, woodford, wood green, wimbledon park, wimbledon, willesden junction, willesden green, whitechapel, white city, westminster, west ferry, westbourne park and 326 more...
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MsHalston's Words
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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