white poplar

English Thesaurus

1. light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	wood,
definition	:	the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	canary whitewood, liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree, yellow poplar,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

2. a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	poplar, poplar tree,
definition	:	any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins (noun.plant)