| 单词 | poplar tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoplar tree poplar tree n. ΚΠ c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 604/8 Populus, a populertre. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 276 Poplar trees, of notable talnesse. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 127 As also that Mushroms may be made to grow at the foot of a wilde Poplar Tree. 1740 G. Nelson Wonders Nature 224 There is a sort of Canes as big as Poplar Trees, so thick and long between the Knots that the Indians cleave them, and make Boats of them. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 128 Young wood of the birch, aspen, and poplar-tree. 1994 D. W. Rowe Bye, George—I think you got It in H. C. Sisson & D. W. Rowe Coots, Codgers & Curmudgeons (1994) 150 In the scorching July sun, chopping down thirty-foot poplar trees and grubbing out willows made a man thirsty. < as lemmas |
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