Noun: poplar
| Singular | poplar |
| Plural | poplars |
Sample Sentences
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They are gathered under the low-hanging branches of a poplar, its gold and green leaves glittering on the breeze like tinsel. [2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 285:]
Nouns inflected like poplar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English popler, from Anglo-Norman popler and Old French poplier (compare French peuplier), from Latin pōpulus, with a suffix later added. See: Middle English Nouns '
popler', French Nouns '
peuplier', Latin Nouns '
pōpulus'.