yellow poplar   (TTS Sound)

The noun yellow poplar has 2 senses

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


• tulip tree, tulip poplar, yellow poplar, canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera -- (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)