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    WHITEWOOD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Holonyms ("whitewood" 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)

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