yellow poplar
n 1: light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for
furniture and veneer [syn: {tulipwood}, {true tulipwood},
{whitewood}, {white poplar}, {yellow 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}, {yellow poplar}, {canary
whitewood}, {Liriodendron tulipifera}]