English noun: yellow poplar |
1. | yellow poplar (plant) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer |
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| Synonyms | true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood |
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| Broader (hypernym) | wood |
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| Substance meronym | canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree, yellow poplar |
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2. | yellow poplar (plant) 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 |
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| Synonyms | canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree |
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| Broader (hypernym) | angiospermous tree, flowering tree |
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| Member meronym | genus Liriodendron, Liriodendron |
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| Substance holonym | true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplar |
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