poplar
pronunciation
How to pronounce poplar in British English:
UK [ˈpɒplə(r)]
How to pronounce poplar in American English:
US [ˈpɑplə(r)]
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- Noun:
- soft light-colored nondurable wood of the poplar
- any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins
Word Origin
- poplar
- poplar: [14] The ancestor of poplar was Latin pōpulus ‘poplar’ (not to be confused with populus ‘people’). This passed into Old French as pople, which with the addition of the treename suffix -ier became poplier. Its Anglo- Norman version was popler, from which English got poplar.
- poplar (n.)
- mid-14c., from Anglo-French popler, from Old French poplier (13c., Modern French peulplier), from Latin populus "poplar" (with a long "o;" not the same word that produced popular), of unknown origin, possibly from a PIE tree-name root *p(y)el- (cognates: Greek pelea "elm"). Italian pioppo, Spanish chopo, German pappel, Old Church Slavonic topoli all are from Latin.
Example
- 1. Poplar pollen on anther by rob kesseler
- 2. Since then , the government has moved cautiously , granting two further approvals , for gm poplar trees and papaya .
- 3. All this raw biting ugliness had been the portion of the man whose tastes were refined beyond the limits of the reasonable -- whose mind was an exhaustless gallery of beautiful impressions and so sensitive that the mere shadow of a poplar leaf flickering against a sunny wall would be etched and held there forever .
- 4. Chrisp street market in poplar , east london , boasts three butchers , two selling halal meat and a third offering farmhouse ham .
- 5. At louis vuitton shops worldwide two students from london 's central saint martins art college were selected to create artwork for their windows : a gradiated sea of poplar wood that both resembles the world as seen from above and the life-circles of a tree .