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white poplar

n.

A deciduous Eurasian tree (Populus alba) having palmately lobed leaves with whitish undersides. Also called abele.

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Noun	1.	white poplar - a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces abele, aspen poplar, Populus alba, silver-leaved poplar, white aspen poplar tree, poplar - any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins
	2.	white poplar - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer true tulipwood, whitewood, yellow poplar, tulipwood canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree, yellow poplar - tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees