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Tulip Tree

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Noun

1. canary 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 work

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tulip Tree

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noun
1. Also called: tulip poplar, yellow poplar
a North American magnoliaceous forest tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, having tulip-shaped greenish-yellow flowers and long conelike fruits
2. 
a similar and related Chinese tree, L. chinense
3. 
any of various other trees with tulip-shaped flowers, such as the magnolia

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Tulip Tree

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a North American forest tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) of the magnolia family, with tulip-shaped, greenish-yellow flowers and conelike fruit
: also called tulip poplar

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tulip Tree

see synonyms of tulip tree
n.
A tall, deciduous, eastern North American tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) having large, tuliplike, green-and-yellow flowers, aromatic twigs, and yellowish wood that is easily worked. Also called poplar.

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