tulip poplar

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tulip poplar - tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet workcanary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip tree, yellow poplargenus Liriodendron, Liriodendron - tulip treestrue tulipwood, whitewood, yellow poplar, tulipwood, white poplar - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneerangiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary