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]