silver poplar

American  

noun

1. white poplar.

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Etymology

Origin of silver poplar

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

A south breeze brought the scent of lilacs and sweet fennel to his nostrils and set all the frosty-green leaves of a silver poplar tree to trembling.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Within on a grass-plot in the garden stood a silver poplar, the moonlight fell sharply on the quivering leaves; sometimes they showed their dark side, sometimes their white.

From Mogens and Other Stories by Grabow, Anna

Now he clearly heard the sound from the leaves of the silver poplar.

From Mogens and Other Stories by Grabow, Anna

They are also much more irregular and ungainly when made with broad leaves, such as those of the silver poplar, than when made from the more narrow leaves of the willow tree.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.

Mrs. Ballinger looked like a proud silver poplar that had been seared by lightning.

From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn