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Poplar   /pˈɑplər/   Listen
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Poplar  n.  (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.)





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... of sight, spurring along unknown ways. The sky was yellow here and amber there, and a pearly flake, its only cloud, glittered white in the midst. Up the hither slope the various green of the pine and the poplar, the sycamore and the sweet-gum, was keenly differentiated, but where the rail fence drew the line of demarkation, Art seemed ...
— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... care to the winds, they can bear it well About yon poplar-tops; and see The white clouds are driving merrily, 55 And the stars we miss this morn will light More willingly our return to-night.— How it whistles, Dominic's long black hair! List, my dear fellow; the breeze blows fair: Hear how it sings ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... shakin' worse nor a poplar leaf, and you're as white as if you hadn't a drop of blood in your precious little body. What on arth's the matter with you, Lina? See that ere dog; now, ain't he a pretty specimen of an animal exotic to be out of a hot house in such a ...
— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens
... of a clear night, when we gaze at Spica Virginis, which is throbbing above the top of a poplar, can see at one and the same time that which was and that which is. And it may be said with equal truth that we see that which is and that which will be. For if the star, such as it appears to us, represents the past as compared with the tree, the tree constitutes the future as compared with ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... kindling a need-fire by striking a piece of iron on an anvil. Where the wood to be employed is specified, it is generally said to be oak; but on the Lower Rhine the fire was kindled by the friction of oak-wood or fir-wood. In Slavonic countries we hear of poplar, pear, and cornel wood being used for the purpose. Often the material is simply described as two pieces of dry wood. Sometimes nine different kinds of wood were deemed necessary, but rather perhaps to be burned in the ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer


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