| 单词 | white poplar |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite poplar white poplar n. [after classical Latin alba populus] (a) a poplar having greyish bark and leaves with bright white down on their undersides, Populus alba, native to southern Europe and northern Africa; (also) the wood of this tree; (b) any of several other trees of the genus Populus, esp. (U.S.) the American aspen, Populus tremuloides; (c) U.S. the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera; the wood of this tree in its palest form. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [noun] popple1229 popple-tree1229 abele?a1300 poplar1371 black poplar1542 white poplar1542 poppling1570 cotton tree1633 tacamahac1739 Lombardy poplar1766 poplar pine1770 Po poplar1776 grey poplar1782 cottonwood1787 pine poplar1789 liard1809 white-backa1825 necklace poplar1845 silver poplar1847 weather-tree1847 hackmatack1873 bitter-weed1878 balsam-poplar1884 Russian poplar1884 Lombardy1917 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [noun] > aspen aspc700 white poplar1542 quaking asp1549 quaking aspen1586 aspen1590 trembling poplar1698 tremble1749 American aspen1785 quaking asp1822 quaking aspen1845 mountain ash1871 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > tulip-tree or flowers poplar1700 tulip-tree1705 tulip1759 yellow poplar1759 canoewood1762 liriodendron1802 white poplar1814 saddle leaf1820 saddle-tree1843 tulip poplar1869 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Populus One is callyd whyte poplar, whose stemme is long and playne, and the leaues alway shakynge. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ vi. 81 The Abele-tree is a finer kinde of white Poplar. 1774 in J. L. Peyton Adventures my Grandfather (1867) 127 The forest of Kentucky consists of yellow and white poplar, walnut, [etc.]. 1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis II. 383 Liriodendron..generally known by the name of Tulip-tree, or White and Yellow Poplar. 1829 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 341 Populus... tremuloides,..white poplar, American aspen. 1908 C. Mair Through Mackenzie Basin 81 It was well timbered..with the finest white poplar I had yet seen. 2000 Jrnl. Soc. Archer-Antiquaries 43 32/2 The wood..is probably white poplar (populus alba). < as lemmas |
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