Other forms: poplars
A poplar is a tall narrow tree that shivers in the slightest wind. A row of poplars, poplar leaves, plant a poplar.
The leaves are held on flattened stalks, which is why they twist and shiver in air too light to move anything else — the aspen is a poplar and is named for exactly that. They grow very fast and are planted as windbreaks and for cheap timber.
1nounpoplarA tall narrow tree that shivers in the slightest wind.
“A row of tall poplars lined the road into the village.”
poplar is a tree.
Latin populus names the tree, unrelated to populus meaning a people despite the identical spelling.
Latin
pōpulus
Old French
poplier
Anglo-Norman
popler
Middle English
popler
English, today
poplar
From Middle English popler, from Anglo-Norman popler and Old French poplier (compare French peuplier), from Latin pōpulus, with a suffix later added.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA