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poplar

poplar


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.

pop·lar    Audio Help   (pŏp'lər)   

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.]
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