white poplar
Americannoun
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Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
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the soft, straight-grained wood of this tree.
noun
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Also called: abele. a Eurasian salicaceous tree, Populus alba, having leaves covered with dense silvery-white hairs
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another name for tulipwood
Etymology
Origin of white poplar
An Americanism dating back to 1765–75
Example Sentences
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Chinese white-birch plywood sandwiches sheets of white poplar wood between outer layers of birch veneer, which is peeled from logs that are typically harvested in Siberian forests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The arches over the doors were painted with black cows, white poplar trees, and owls.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The woods used were ebony, box, walnut, and white poplar, and the cost was 3152 lire.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
It was well timbered, in some places, with the finest white poplar I had yet seen.
From Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 by Mair, Charles
And at a short distance the avenue was crossed by a white poplar grove, which brought the scene to a limit, and separated this dream of a rural statesman from the common world.
From The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
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