whitewood

white·wood  (hwtwd, wt-)

n.

1. Any of various deciduous trees such as the tulip tree, basswood, or cottonwood.

2. The soft, light-colored wood of any of these trees.

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whitewood

Noun

a light-coloured wood often prepared for staining

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

whitewood - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer true tulipwood, yellow poplar, tulipwood, white poplar canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree, yellow poplar - tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees