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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Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer.
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1 The same of the seeds of the tulip tree or liriodendum tulipiferum.
2 A long-looking poplar does not go with a nice rather rounded little tulip tree .
3 Tell me whether the tulip tree froze this winter, and if the poppies are pretty.
4 I'll wager that the tulip tree is in bud.
5 The noble tulip tree flourishes here, and blooms profusely.
1 And some outstanding specimens of tulip poplar , as well.
2 No one should complain when a neighbor has a 200 foot tulip poplar in their upstairs bedroom.
3 Here in the Eastern Woodlands I use wood from trees like basswood or tulip poplar or cedar they're absolutely ideal.
4 The yellow poplar or tulip poplar furnishes timber for the manufacture of furniture, paper, the interior of railroad cars and automobiles.
5 Serena nodded, her eyes rising beyond the tulip poplar to the ridge where crews had gained a first foothold above Henley Creek.
1 Liriodendron Tulipifera : the scientific name for the tulip tree, which sometimes attains a height of 140 feet and a diameter of 9 feet.
1 The fronts should be of oak, but the other parts of yellow poplar .
2 Drawer sides, bottoms and backs may be made of some soft wood, such as yellow poplar .
3 Examples of this kind of wood are gum, yellow poplar , birch, maple, cottonwood, basswood, buckeye, and willow.
4 Peeking from a hollow in the roots of a yellow poplar was the corner of another plastic bag.
5 He sprang into the saddle, stooped his head to avoid the yellow poplar branches, and disappeared under the elm arches.
6 The yellow poplar or tulip poplar furnishes timber for the manufacture of furniture, paper, the interior of railroad cars and automobiles.
7 Dunbar and Ross followed their foreman across the creek to a yellow poplar that was the biggest tree in the gap.
8 He thought especially of Cade's Cove, where old-growth yellow poplars yet remained.
9 The river glittered about the piers of the wrecked stone bridge, and disappeared between rows of yellow poplars .
10 The farm occupied a space of some hundred acres on a gentle eminence, crested with yellow poplars and laurels.
11 They lay under a stand of yellow poplars , and the leaves rustled incessantly though no wind could be felt.
12 Yellow poplars , faint as mist, rose slender against the sky along a black shining stream that swirled beside the track.
13 It has been a real thrill to see cypress, sycamore and even a few yellow poplars , survive our rugged winters.
14 A small creek ran through the gap and trees lined it, a few yellow poplars but mainly sycamore and birch and hemlock.
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