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WHITE POPLAR

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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 ("white poplar" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("white poplar" 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:

A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces

Synonyms:

abele; aspen poplar; Populus alba; silver-leaved poplar; white aspen; white poplar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("white poplar" is a kind of...):

poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)

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