poplar

noun

pop·lar | \ ˈpä-plər

Definition of poplar

(Entry 1 of 2)

1a : any of a genus (Populus) of slender catkin-bearing quick-growing deciduous trees (such as an aspen or cottonwood) of the willow family

b : the wood of a poplar

2 : tulip tree sense 1

Poplar

geographical name

Pop·lar | \ ˈpä-plər

Definition of Poplar (Entry 2 of 2)

former metropolitan borough of eastern London, England, on the northern bank of the Thames River that is now part of the borough of Tower Hamlets

Examples of poplar in a Sentence

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His exquisitely modulated, serial views of haystacks, cathedral façades and rows of poplars in changing light, conjured up by stabs and strokes of subtly varied hues, are paradigms of 19th-century modernism. — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, "‘Monet: The Late Years’ Review: Radiant Inspiration to the Very End," 2 Apr. 2019 Some of them include: glossy abelia, beauty berries, hydrangeas, Bradford and Callery pears, crabapples, poplar, spruce, junipers, sumacs, cherries, and plums. — Leah Zerbe, Good Housekeeping, "Why You Should Stop Pruning Your Garden in the Fall," 8 Aug. 2018 One of Doty's students collected the microbe, an Enterobacter strain dubbed PDN3, from a Wisconsin poplar cutting. — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, "Treating Toxins with Tree Microbes," 1 Nov. 2017 The poplar had been planted 35 years earlier, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, John Saar reported for The Washington Post. — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, "At Korean summit in DMZ, ‘deranged’ ax murders still cast a shadow," 26 Apr. 2018 This fungal disease attacks poplars, spruces, and stone fruits. — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, "Grow Healthy Food By Identifying + Treating These Common Plant Diseases," 21 July 2015 We were flanked by endless orange fields on the way to Bakersfield, followed by poplars and palms, this after the already powerful mix of sequoias. — Blake Snow, latimes.com, "A SloCal road trip gives you a geographic, climatological super sampler," 20 May 2018 Fall in the Yukon means daylight is growing precious, the poplars are turning yellow, and Richard Daigle is boarding a GroundTruth helicopter to the placer leases Ryan’s crew staked one year earlier. — Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, "The Rush: What the World's Greatest Gold Prospector Knows," 17 May 2018 In earlier research, Sharon Doty, a plant microbiologist at the University of Washington, and her colleagues had genetically modified a poplar to cope with high TCE levels. — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, "Treating Toxins with Tree Microbes," 1 Nov. 2017

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