Balsam Poplar Definition

noun
A poplar tree of northern North America (Populus balsamifera) having ovate leaves and large buds coated with a sticky, fragrant resin.
American Heritage
A poplar (Populus balsamifera) of N North America, having buds that are coated with a fragrant resin.
Webster's New World
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Balsam Poplar Sentence Examples

  • They are frequently covered with a resinous matter, as in balsam-poplar and horsechestnut, or by a thick downy covering as in the willow.

  • Next in importance after spruce, in the interior, is birch, and then balsam poplar.

  • A small Western balsam poplar P. trichocarpa is found along the footpath on Dog Kennel Hill.

  • They contain the poplar or aspen (Populus tremuloides), balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), and paper or canoe birch (Betula papyrifera).

  • The flora of the Hudsonian and the Canadian zone consists largely of white and black spruce, tamarack, canoe-birch, balsam-poplar, balsam-fir, aspen and grey pine.

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