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Definition of Gray poplar
1. Noun. Large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but introduced and naturalized elsewhere.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gray Poplar
Literary usage of Gray poplar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Landed Property, and the Economy of Estates: Comprehending the Relation by David Low (1844)
"Its branches, too, are downy and white, and are more horizontal and spreading
than those of the gray poplar. It is scarcely so hardy as the gray poplar, ..."
2. Tree-planting for Ornamentation Or Profit, Suitable to Every Soil & Situation by Arthur Roland (1892)
"... and Poplar Fences—Black Italian Poplar—The gray poplar—The White Poplar —
White Egyptian Poplar—The Trembling-leaved Poplar, or Aspen—The Balsam ..."
3. The Indian Forester (1903)
"By analysis of the ash of the gray poplar treated with magnesium sulphate, there
are found 0 24 per cent, of sulphuric acid, corresponding to 0-GO of ..."
4. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"It would seem, however, that this "gray poplar" is the original form of the tree,
and that the white poplar is the variety, and that the latter was ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The gray poplar possesses the whitest wood of any of the species, and is used in
France and Germany for carving and the lighter kinds of architecture. ..."
6. English Trees and Tree-planting by William H. Ablett (1880)
"A native of Britain, the gray poplar is a fast-growing, somewhat spreading tree,
which flowers in April, making a conspicuous show of large catkins that ..."
7. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General by James Brown (1851)
"The leaves of this sort very much resemble those of the gray poplar; but they
are easily ... This tree is propagated in the same manner as the gray poplar, ..."
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