POPLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poplar mean? 

• POPLAR (noun)
  The noun POPLAR has 2 senses:

1. soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar

2. any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins

  Familiarity information: POPLAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPLAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("poplar" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("poplar" is a substance of...):

poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

poplar; poplar tree

Hypernyms ("poplar" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Meronyms (substance of "poplar"):

poplar (soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poplar"):

balsam poplar; hackmatack; Populus balsamifera; tacamahac (poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves)

abele; aspen poplar; Populus alba; silver-leaved poplar; white aspen; white poplar (a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces)

gray poplar; grey poplar; Populus canescens (large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but introduced and naturalized elsewhere)

black poplar; Populus nigra (large European poplar)

cottonwood (any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed)

aspen (any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind)

Holonyms ("poplar" is a member of...):

genus Populus; Populus (a genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars)

 Context examples 

In front, amid radiating lines of poplars, lay the riverside townlet of Cardillac—gray walls, white houses, and a feather of blue smoke.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Blanche and Mary were of equal stature,—straight and tall as poplars.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

At the further side the road winds through La Reolle, Bazaille, and Marmande, with the sunlit river still gleaming upon the right, and the bare poplars bristling up upon either side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All morning they rode down a broad and winding road, barred with the shadows of poplars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But there, down in the dingle, is the church of Cardillac, and you may see the inn where three poplars grow beyond the village.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is one, Francois Villet, at Cahors, who will send me wine-casks for my cloth-bales, so to Cahors I will go, though all the robber-knights of Christendom were to line the roads like yonder poplars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With his thick knotted arms, his thundering voice, and his bristle of red hair, there was something so repellent in the man that the three brothers flew back at the very glare of him; and the two rows of white monks strained away from him like poplars in a tempest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)