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YELLOW POPLAR

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yellow poplar" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Meronyms (substance of "yellow poplar"):

true tulipwood; tulipwood; white poplar; whitewood; yellow poplar (light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer)

Holonyms ("yellow poplar" is a member of...):

genus Liriodendron; Liriodendron (tulip trees)

Sense 2

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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yellow poplar" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("yellow poplar" 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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