whitewood

white·wood

W5143800 (wīt′wo͝od′, hwīt′-)n.1. Any of various trees having soft light-colored wood, such as a tulip tree, basswood, or spruce.2. The wood of any of these trees.

whitewood

(ˈwaɪtˌwʊd) n1. (Plants) any of various trees with light-coloured wood, such as the tulip tree, basswood, and cottonwood2. (Forestry) the wood of any of these trees3. (Plants) Also: whiteywood another name for mahoe

white•wood

(ˈʰwaɪtˌwʊd, ˈwaɪt-)

n. 1. any of numerous trees, as the basswood, yielding a white or light-colored wood. 2. the wood of these trees. [1655–65]

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whitewood - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneertrue tulipwood, yellow poplar, tulipwood, white poplarcanary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree, yellow 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 workwood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

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whitewood

whitewood,

common name for numerous unrelated trees having light-colored wood, e.g., the tulip tree (see magnoliamagnolia,
common name for plants of the genus Magnolia, and for the Magnoliaceae, a family of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs, often with showy flowers. They are principally of north temperate regions with centers of distribution in Asia and E North America.
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common name for the Tiliaceae, a family of chiefly woody shrubs and trees. Most genera are tropical, but the genus Tilia, commonly called linden, or lime tree, in Europe and Asia and basswood in North America, is found throughout the north temperate zone.
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common name for some members of the Salicaceae, a family of deciduous trees and shrubs of worldwide distribution, especially abundant from north temperate to arctic areas.
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tulipwood

1. A soft, close-textured durable wood, yellowish in color; used for millwork and veneer. 2. A rose-colored, very hard wood from Brazil; esp. used for inlay work.

whitewood

1. any of various trees with light-coloured wood, such as the tulip tree, basswood, and cottonwood 2. the wood of any of these trees 3. another name for mahoe

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noun light easily worked wood of a tulip tree

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