| Noun | 1. | canary whitewood - tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet workgenus Liriodendron, Liriodendron - tulip trees true tulipwood, whitewood, yellow poplar, tulipwood, white poplar - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary |