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]