liriodendron tulipifera

What does liriodendron tulipifera mean?

liriodendron tulipifera 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 liriodendron tulipifera?

Close synonyms include tulip tree, tulip poplar, yellow poplar, canary whitewood. 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 liriodendron tulipifera a common word?

liriodendron tulipifera 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 liriodendron tulipifera come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.