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Grey poplar   /greɪ pˈɑplər/   Listen
Grey poplar

noun
1.
Large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but introduced and naturalized elsewhere.  Synonyms: gray poplar, Populus canescens.






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"Grey poplar" Quotes from Famous Books



... Norcia. The lower ranges seem as though painted, in films of airiest and palest azure, upon china; and then comes the broad, green champaign, flecked with villages and farms. Just at the basement of Perugia winds Tiber, through sallows and grey poplar-trees, spanned by ancient arches of red brick, and guarded here and there by castellated towers. The mills beneath their dams and weirs are just as Raphael drew them; and the feeling of air and space reminds one, on each coign of vantage, of some Umbrian picture. Every hedgerow is hoary ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds



Words linked to "Grey poplar" :   gray poplar, poplar tree, poplar, Populus canescens



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