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yellow poplar, tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, white poplar | light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | |
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tulip tree, tulip poplar, yellow poplar, canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera | 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 |