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Noun: white poplar  wIt póp-lu(r)
  1. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces
    - white aspen, abele, aspen poplar, silver-leaved poplar, Populus alba
     
  2. Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
    - tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, yellow poplar

Derived forms: white poplars

Type of: poplar, poplar tree, wood

Part of: canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree, yellow poplar

Encyclopedia: White poplar