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poplar - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Noun
poplar (countable and uncountable, plural poplars)
- Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.
- ✤ They are gathered under the low-hanging branches of a poplar, its gold and green leaves glittering on the breeze like tinsel.1
- (uncountable) Wood from the poplar tree.
Etymology
From Middle English popler, from Anglo-Norman popler and Old French poplier (compare French peuplier), from Latin pōpulus, with a suffix later added.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈpɒp.lə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA: /ˈpɑ.plɚ/
- Audio (US): 🔊
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Link to original Footnotes
2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 285: ↩
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