WHITEWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whitewood mean? 

• WHITEWOOD (noun)
  The noun WHITEWOOD has 1 sense:

1. light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer

  Familiarity information: WHITEWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITEWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

true tulipwood; tulipwood; white poplar; whitewood; yellow poplar

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)