poplar

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While the poplar is a rapid grower, it sheds its leaves early and so is left standing, bare and ugly, before the fall is old.

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

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  1. Middle English popler, from Old French poplier, from pouple, from Latin pōpulus.

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  1. Early modern English popler; from Middle English popler, poplere, populere = Dutch populier, popelier, from Old French poplier, peuplier, French peuplier, a poplar-tree, poplar, from peuple, poplar, from Latin populus, poplar: see popple, Populus.
 

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/ˈpɑplər/
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