LOMBARDY POPLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lombardy poplar mean? 

• LOMBARDY POPLAR (noun)
  The noun LOMBARDY POPLAR has 1 sense:

1. distinguished by its columnar fastigiate shape and erect branches

  Familiarity information: LOMBARDY POPLAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOMBARDY POPLAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distinguished by its columnar fastigiate shape and erect branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lombardy poplar; Populus nigra italica

Hypernyms ("Lombardy poplar" is a kind of...):

black poplar; Populus nigra (large European poplar)

 Context examples 

It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)