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name
A placename:
A suburban area in East London, borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3780).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
An unincorporated community in Audubon County, Iowa, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
An unincorporated community in Cass County, Minnesota, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A city in Roosevelt County, Montana, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
An unincorporated community in Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Virginia, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A village in Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: popple
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noun
Wood from the poplar tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: poplar tree
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Broader terms: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Narrower terms: balsam poplar, hackmatack, tacamahac, Populus balsamifera, white poplar, white aspen, abele, aspen poplar, silver-leaved poplar, Populus alba, grey poplar, gray poplar, Populus canescens, black poplar, Populus nigra, cottonwood, aspen
noun
soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wood
History
From poplar, also as a topographic surname for a person who lived by this tree.
From Middle English popler, from Anglo-Norman popler and Old French poplier (compare French peuplier), from Latin pōpulus, with a suffix later added.
Across languages
125 source translations are retained for this English entry.
