tulip poplar

Questions about tulip poplar

What does tulip poplar mean?

tulip poplar 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 tulip poplar?

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

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