Definition of "poplars" [poplars]

• Plural form of poplar. (noun)

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• "Bordered on each side by a row of thin poplars, and by interminable fields of Indian corn, it goes on for miles and miles, diminishing to a point in the far distance, like the well-known diagram of an avenue in perspective."
• "The brave intention of frequency, so great with him from the moment of his finding himself unjustly suspected at Woollett, had remained rather theoretic, and one of the things he could muse about under his poplars was the source of the special shyness that had still made him careful."
• "An old English writer calls the poplars 'hospitable trees, for anything thrives under their shade.'"