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TULIP TREE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
canary whitewood; Liriodendron tulipifera; tulip poplar; tulip tree; yellow poplar
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tulip tree" is a kind of...):
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
Meronyms (substance of "tulip tree"):
true tulipwood; tulipwood; white poplar; whitewood; yellow poplar (light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer)
Holonyms ("tulip tree" is a member of...):
genus Liriodendron; Liriodendron (tulip trees)
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