POPLAR TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poplar tree mean? 

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

1. any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPLAR TREE (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

poplar; poplar tree

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

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Meronyms (substance of "poplar tree"):

poplar (soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poplar tree"):

balsam poplar; hackmatack; Populus balsamifera; tacamahac (poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves)

abele; aspen poplar; Populus alba; silver-leaved poplar; white aspen; white poplar (a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces)

gray poplar; grey poplar; Populus canescens (large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but introduced and naturalized elsewhere)

black poplar; Populus nigra (large European poplar)

cottonwood (any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed)

aspen (any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind)

Holonyms ("poplar tree" is a member of...):

genus Populus; Populus (a genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars)