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pop⋅lar

  [pop-ler]
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–noun
1. any of the rapidly growing, salicaceous trees of the genus Populus, usually characterized by the columnar or spirelike manner of growth of its branches.
2. the light, soft wood of any of these trees, used for pulp.
3. any of various similar trees, as the tulip tree.
4. the wood of any such tree.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME popler(e), var. of populer, equiv. to ME, OE popul popple 2 (< L pōpulus poplar) + -er -er 2 ; suffix appar. added on model of MF pouplier, equiv. to pouple poplar + -ier -ier 2

Related forms:
poplared, adjective
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pop·lar   (pŏp'lər)   


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n.  

    1. Any of several fast-growing deciduous trees of the genus Populus having unisexual flowers borne in catkins.

    2. The wood of these trees.

  2. See tulip tree.


[Middle English popler, from Old French poplier, from pouple, from Latin pōpulus.]
tulip tree  
n.  

  1. A tall, deciduous, eastern North American tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) having large, tuliplike green and orange flowers, aromatic twigs, and yellowish wood that is easily worked. Also called poplar.

  2. See African tulip tree.

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Word Origin & History

poplar 
1356, from Anglo-Norm. popler, from O.Fr. poplier (13c., Fr. peulplier), from L. populus "poplar" (with a long "o;" not the same word that produced popular). Perhaps related to Gk. pelea "elm." It. pioppo, Sp. chopo, Ger. pappel, O.C.S. topoli all are from L.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Poplar
Morris, 1978. A blend of LISP with SNOBOL4 pattern matching and APL-like postfix syntax. Implicit iteration over lists, sorting primitive. "Experience with an Applicative String-Processing Language", J.H. Morris et al, 7th POPL, ACM 1980, pp.32-46.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

Poplar

Heb. libneh, "white", (Gen. 30:37; Hos. 4:13), in all probability the storax tree (Styrax officinalis) or white poplar, distinguished by its white blossoms and pale leaves. It is common in the Anti-Libanus. Other species of the poplar are found in Palestine, such as the white poplar (P. alba) of our own country, the black poplar (P. nigra), and the aspen (P. tremula). (See WILLOW.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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