ople tree

English

Etymology

Latin opulus a kind of maple tree.

Noun

ople tree (plural ople trees)

(obsolete) The witch hazel.
- 1597, John Gerard, The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes:
  in English Matish Elder , and Whitten tree , Ople tree, and Dwarffe Plane tree

Hypernyms

tree

References

“ople tree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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