yellow poplar

yellow poplar

n.

The tulip tree.

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yellow poplar

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) another name for tulip tree [1], tulipwood [1]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	yellow poplar - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer true tulipwood, whitewood, 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
	2.	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 canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree genus 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