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GREY POPLAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grey poplar mean?
• GREY POPLAR (noun)
The noun GREY POPLAR has 1 sense:
1. large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but introduced and naturalized elsewhere
Familiarity information: GREY POPLAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but introduced and naturalized elsewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
gray poplar; grey poplar; Populus canescens
Hypernyms ("grey poplar" is a kind of...):
poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)
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