ople tree

English

Etymology

Latin opulus a kind of maple tree.

Noun

ople tree (plural ople trees)

1. (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.