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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several fast-growing deciduous trees of the genus Populus having unisexual flowers borne in catkins.
  2. n. The wood of these trees.
  3. n. See tulip tree.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. n. A tree of some other genus in some way resembling a poplar.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.
  2. n. U.S. The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins
  2. n. soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar

Etymologies

  1. From Anglo-Norman popler, from Old French poplier (French: peuplier), from Latin populus. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English popler, from Old French poplier, from pouple, from Latin pōpulus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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