yellow poplar

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yellow poplar - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  yellow poplar
      n 1: light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for
           furniture and veneer [syn: tulipwood, true tulipwood,
           whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar]
      2: 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
         , Liriodendron tulipifera]