Definition of Poplars

1. Noun. (plural of poplar) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Poplars

1. poplar [n] - See also: poplar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poplars

popguns
pophole
popholes
popinjay
popinjays
popish
popishly
popishness
popjoy
popjoyed
popjoying
popjoys
poplar
poplar tree
poplarlike
poplars (current term)
poplexy
poplike
poplin
poplins
popliteal
popliteal artery
popliteal vein
poplitei
popliteus
poplitic
popo
popodom
popos
popout

Literary usage of Poplars

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"There appear to be few important growing collections of poplars in this ... The hybrid poplars have not been given sufficient attention in North America. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The poplars are almost entirely confined to .—The greet tomes known as the ... As in all poplars, the covered with a grayish-white bark, becoming much ..."

3. Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"poplars and the like. Another defect in common ornamental planting, which is well illustrated in the use of poplars, is the desire for plants merely because ..."

4. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"Like the wood of other poplars, much sought for paper-mills as an admixture to ... All poplars might be planted in gullies, like all Willows, to intercept ..."

5. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1908)
"The observation that pyramid poplars have Female within recent years been frequently dying Pyramid has led to the belief that this was due to poplars. ..."

6. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... overthrown those two Fell, and lay prone like lofty poplars hewn. Their fall Atrides Menelaus mark'd And pitied, and betwixt the foremost strode ..."

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