TULIP TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tulip tree mean? 

• TULIP TREE (noun)
  The noun TULIP TREE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: TULIP TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TULIP TREE (noun)

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

canary whitewood; Liriodendron tulipifera; tulip poplar; tulip tree; yellow poplar

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)