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yellow poplar

n. A species, ''Liriodendron tulipifera'', of tree in the magnolia family, found in North America, with pale green or yellow leaves.

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

Usage examples of "yellow poplar".

Sure enough, it was as he'd remembered, a long slope above that gorge, both sides thick with a fine stand of yellow poplar, with here and there an oak or, lower down, a sycamore.

Through the thick foliage of mature birch and yellow poplar, the sun was bright on the fresh new green of sycamore saplings and young birches.

Beyond the bay window before which my desk is drawn I can see green fields and tall trees-hickory and mountain laurel, pine and yellow poplar.