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WHITEWOOD
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
Synonyms:
true tulipwood; tulipwood; white poplar; whitewood; yellow poplar
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("whitewood" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("whitewood" is a substance of...):
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)
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