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- Dutch · calque ofabeelboom“white poplar tree”
- English todayabeltree
Calque of Dutch abeelboom (“white poplar tree”), from abeel (“white poplar”) + boom (“tree”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
abeltree
Today it means: A Eurasian tree, Populus alba, that is widely cultivated in North America. Full definition →
Dutch abeelboom