white poplar†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of poplar, Populus tremuloides, found throughout Canada; trembling aspen.

See: whitewood(def. 1)

Quotations

1908

It was well timbered, in some places, with the finest white poplar I had yet seen.

1954

At home there was the wide and sunny freedom of his valley, with birches and white poplars between the belts of jackpine.