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DOWNY POPLAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does downy poplar mean?
• DOWNY POPLAR (noun)
The noun DOWNY POPLAR has 1 sense:
1. North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood
Familiarity information: DOWNY POPLAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
black cottonwood; downy poplar; Populus heterophylla; swamp cottonwood; swamp poplar
Hypernyms ("downy poplar" is a kind of...):
cottonwood (any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed)
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