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