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 tulipifera
• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Liriodendron, ↑genus Liriodendron
• Substance Meronyms: ↑tulipwood, ↑true tulipwood, ↑whitewood, ↑white poplar
2. light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
• Syn: ↑tulipwood, ↑true tulipwood, ↑whitewood, ↑white poplar
• Hypernyms: ↑wood
• Substance Holonyms: ↑tulip tree, ↑tulip poplar, ↑canary whitewood, ↑Liriodendron tulipifera
Useful english dictionary. 2012.