Abele

ABELE (a-beel’ or ay’-bel). A name for the white poplar (Populus alba), a large tree with coarsely-lobed, triangular leaves, hardy even along the N. Atlantic coast. Its var. nivea, with leaves white and cottony beneath, is sometimes, but wrongly, called “silver-maple.”

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