poplar

What it means

1. countableuncountableAny of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.

   They are gathered under the low-hanging branches of a poplar, its gold and green leaves glittering on the breeze like tinsel.

   2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 285

   Synonyms: popple

2. uncountableWood from the poplar tree.

In a sentence

They are gathered under the low-hanging branches of a poplar, its gold and green leaves glittering on the breeze like tinsel.

2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 285

Where it comes from

1. Latinpōpulus
2. Old Frenchpoplier
3. Anglo-Normanpopler
4. Middle Englishpopler
5. Englishpoplar

From Middle English popler, from Anglo-Norman popler and Old French poplier (compare French peuplier), from Latin pōpulus, with a suffix later added.