poplar

noun

• 1a tall, fast-growing tree of north temperate regions, widely grown in shelter belts and for timber and pulp.

  • Genus Populus, family Salicaceae: many species, including the North American cottonwoods, the quaking aspen, and the balm of Gilead poplars

• 2 (yellow poplar) North Americananother term for tulip tree.