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White poplar

noun

A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces. Synonyms: abele, aspen poplar, Populus alba, silver-leaved poplar, white aspen.

Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer. Synonyms: true tulipwood, tulipwood, whitewood, yellow poplar.

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... trees little cared for is still very rapid in Italy. According to Toscanelli, Economia rurale nella Provincia di Pisa, p. 8, note—one of the most complete, curious, and instructive pictures of rural life which exists in any literature—the white poplar, Populus alba, attains in the valley of the Serchio a great height, with a mean diameter of two feet, in twenty years. Solmi states in his Miasma Palustre, p. 115, that the linden reaches a diameter of sixteen inches in the same period. The growth of foreign trees is sometimes extremely ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

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Words linked to "White poplar" : tulip tree, poplar tree, tulip poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera, wood, poplar, canary whitewood