gray poplar

1. 1.

   large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but introduced and naturalized elsewhere

   Synonymsgrey poplarPopulus canescens

   Broaderpoplar

Questions about gray poplar

What does gray poplar mean?

gray poplar means "large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but introduced and naturalized elsewhere".

What is another word for gray poplar?

Close synonyms include grey poplar, Populus canescens. 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 gray poplar a common word?

gray 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.