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poplar
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Poplar, city, England

Poplar, former metropolitan borough, SE England. See Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets, inner borough (1991 pop. 153,500), of Greater London, SE England. Tower Hamlets was formed in 1965 by the merger of the metropolitan boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar, and Stepney.
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poplar, in botany

poplar: see willow willow, common name for some members of the Salicaceae, a family of deciduous trees and shrubs of worldwide distribution, especially abundant from north temperate to arctic areas.
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poplar

Any of at least 35 species and many natural hybrids of trees that make up the genus Populus (willow family). Poplars grow throughout northern temperate regions, some even beyond the Arctic Circle. They are rapid-growing but relatively short-lived. Their leaves flutter in the slightest breeze because of their laterally compressed petioles (leafstalks). The relatively soft wood is used to make cardboard boxes, crates, paper, and veneer. North America has three groups of native poplars: cottonwoods, aspens, and balsam poplars.


poplar
1. any tree of the salicaceous genus Populus, of N temperate regions, having triangular leaves, flowers borne in catkins, and light soft wood
2. any of various trees resembling the true poplars, such as the tulip tree
3. the wood of any of these trees

poplar [′päp·lər]
(botany)
Any tree of the genusPopulus, family Salicaceae, marked by simple, alternate leaves, scaly buds, bitter bark, and flowers and fruits in catkins.

Poplar - Morris, 1978. A blend of LISP with SNOBOL4 pattern matching and APL-like postfix syntax. Implicit iteration over lists, sorting primitive. "Experience with an Applicative String-Processing Language", J.H. Morris et al, 7th POPL, ACM 1980, pp.32-46.


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Alone in a grove of yellow poplars, Whitman once said that he experienced a presence that neither chemistry nor reasoning nor aesthetics could explain.
Only in your mind's eye can you see yellow poplars four feet or more in diameter, white pines over 100 feet tall, huge hemlocks, and wildlife the way it was when Native Americans relied on it as a major food source.
 
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