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TULIPWOOD

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tulipwood mean? 

TULIPWOOD (noun)
  The noun TULIPWOOD has 2 senses:

1. the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees
2. light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer

  Familiarity information: TULIPWOOD used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TULIPWOOD (noun)


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Meaning:

The variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Holonyms ("tulipwood" is a substance of...):

tulipwood tree (any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood)


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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

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

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

Holonyms ("tulipwood" 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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