white·wood /-ˌwʊd/
 白色木材,其樹


 White·wood n. The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera).  It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
 Note: ☞ Several other kinds of light-colored wood are called whitewood in various countries, as the wood of Bignonia leucoxylon in the West Indies, of Pittosporum bicolor in Tasmania, etc.
 Whitewood bark. See the Note under Canella.

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