canary whitewood

Questions about canary whitewood

What does canary whitewood mean?

canary whitewood means "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".

What is another word for canary whitewood?

Close synonyms include tulip tree, tulip poplar, yellow poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is canary whitewood a common word?

canary whitewood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for canary whitewood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.