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TULIPWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tulipwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("tulipwood" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tulipwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("tulipwood" is a substance of...):

tulipwood tree (any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood)

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