true tulipwood

true tulipwood
noun
light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
Hypernyms: ↑wood

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  • tulipwood — noun 1. the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees • Hypernyms: ↑wood • Substance Holonyms: ↑tulipwood tree 2. light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer • Syn: ↑true tulipwood, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • tulipwood tree — noun any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood • Hypernyms: ↑tree • Hyponyms: ↑portia tree, ↑bendy tree, ↑seaside mahoe, ↑Thespesia populnea, ↑harpullia …   Useful english dictionary

  • yellow 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 • Syn: ↑tulip tree, ↑tulip poplar, ↑canary whitewood, ↑Liriodendron… …   Useful english dictionary

  • canary whitewood — noun 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 • Syn: ↑tulip tree, ↑tulip poplar, ↑yellow poplar, ↑Liriodendron… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Liriodendron tulipifera — noun 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 • Syn: ↑tulip tree, ↑tulip poplar, ↑yellow poplar, ↑canary whitewood •… …   Useful english dictionary

  • tulip poplar — noun 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 • Syn: ↑tulip tree, ↑yellow poplar, ↑canary whitewood, ↑Liriodendron… …   Useful english dictionary

  • tulip tree — noun 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 (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑tulip poplar, ↑yellow poplar, ↑canary whitewood,… …   Useful english dictionary

  • white poplar — noun 1. a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces • Syn: ↑white aspen, ↑abele, ↑aspen poplar, ↑silver leaved poplar, ↑Populus alba • Hypernyms: ↑poplar, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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