downy poplar

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   North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood

   Synonymsswamp cottonwoodblack cottonwoodswamp poplarPopulus heterophylla

   Broadercottonwood

Questions about downy poplar

What does downy poplar mean?

downy poplar means "North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood".

What is another word for downy poplar?

Close synonyms include swamp cottonwood, black cottonwood, swamp poplar, Populus heterophylla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is downy poplar a common word?

downy poplar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.