'Populus tremuloides' definitions:
Definition of 'Populus tremuloides'
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noun
Slender aspen native to North America [syn: American quaking aspen, American aspen, Populus tremuloides]
Definition of 'Populus tremuloides'
From: GCIDE
- Quaking \Quak"ing\, a. & n. from Quake, v. [1913 Webster]
- Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American species of poplar (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen.
- Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon.
- Quaking grass. (Bot.) (a) One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking grass; Briza media and Briza minor are the smaller kinds. (b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Populus tremuloides'
From: GCIDE
- Poplar \Pop"lar\, n. [OE. popler, OF. poplier, F. peuplier, fr. L. populus poplar.] (Bot.)
- 1. Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The aspen poplar is Populus tremula and {Populus tremuloides}; Balsam poplar is Populus balsamifera; Lombardy poplar (Populus dilatata) is a tall, spiry tree; white poplar is Populus alba. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also {white poplar}. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]