Calque of Dutch abeelboom (“white poplar tree”), from abeel (“white poplar”) + boom (“tree”).
abeltree (uncountable)
- A Eurasian tree, Populus alba, that is widely cultivated in North America.[1]
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 3
