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    YELLOW POPLAR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet workplay

    Synonyms:

    canary whitewood; Liriodendron tulipifera; tulip poplar; tulip tree; yellow poplar

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

    Meronyms (substance of "yellow poplar"):

    true tulipwood; tulipwood; white poplar; whitewood; yellow poplar (light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer)

    Holonyms ("yellow poplar" is a member of...):

    genus Liriodendron; Liriodendron (tulip trees)

    Sense 2

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

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

    Holonyms ("yellow 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)

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