POPULUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Populus mean? 

• POPULUS (noun)
  The noun POPULUS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars

  Familiarity information: POPULUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Populus; Populus

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

hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "Populus"):

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

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

family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family (two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus)

 Context examples 

E. cancerogenus was isolated from the tree Populus canadensis and is known to cause infection in cases of severe trauma.

(Enterobacter cancerogenus, NCI Thesaurus)