| n. | 1. | (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses. |
| 2. | The timber of the tulip tree; - called also |
| Noun | 1. | poplar - soft light-colored nondurable wood of the poplar |
| 2. | poplar - any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkinsSynonyms: poplar tree |
| Poplar - Morris, 1978. A blend of LISP with SNOBOL4 pattern matching and APL-like postfix syntax. Implicit iteration over lists, sorting primitive. "Experience with an Applicative String-Processing Language", J.H. Morris et al, 7th POPL, ACM 1980, pp.32-46. |