yellow poplar

Noun

• 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

• light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  tulip tree , tulip poplar , canary whitewood , Liriodendron tulipifera , tulipwood , true tulipwood , whitewood , white poplar