abele

• arbeal (obsolete)

From Old French aubel, aubiel, from Medieval Latin albellus (“white poplar”), diminutive of Latin albus (“white”). Some forms after Middle Dutch abeel, from Old French.

Abele; White poplar

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbiːl/, /ə.ˈbeɪl/, /ˈeɪ.bl̩/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbil/, /ə.ˈbeɪl/, /ˈeɪ.bl̩/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -iːl, -eɪl

abele (plural abeles)

1. The white poplar (Populus alba). [from 13th c.]
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 114:

     But I account for my predilection, by the kind of pensive and melancholy peasure I used to feel, when in my childhood and early youth, I walked alone, in a long avenue of arbeal […] .

   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, The Rhyme of the Duchess May, line 5:

     Six abeles i' the churchyard grow

• Populus alba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Populus alba on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Populus alba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Albee, Beale

abele

1. plural of ibele

• Blench, Roger, The Ayu language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2011), page 6