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Any of several fast-growing deciduous trees of the genus Populus, having unisexual flowers borne in catkins and seeds with cottony tufts.

Any of several North American poplar trees, especially Populus deltoides, which has triangular leaves and a tuft of cottony hairs on the seeds.

The wood of any of these trees.

A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.

See tulip tree.

Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.

A flowering shrub or tree, the cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), in the mallow family.

(uncountable) Wood from the poplar tree.

A tree, Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.

Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.

An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the Populus monilifera and Populus angustifolia of the Western United States.

The timber of the tulip tree; - called also white poplar.

Any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed

Soft light-colored nondurable wood of the poplar

American basswood of the Allegheny region

Any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins