tulip poplar

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 111732751)
    is a type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
    belongs to: genus liriodendron, liriodendron - tulip trees
    substance holonym: true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplar - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
    same as: canary whitewood, liriodendron tulipifera, tulip tree, yellow poplar

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