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Meanings of yellow poplar in English
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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àlber blanc Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer.
Usage of yellow poplar in English
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.
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He sprang into the saddle, stooped his head to avoid the yellow poplar branches, and disappeared under the elm arches.
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The yellow poplar or tulip poplar furnishes timber for the manufacture of furniture, paper, the interior of railroad cars and automobiles.
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Dunbar and Ross followed their foreman across the creek to a yellow poplar that was the biggest tree in the gap.
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He thought especially of Cade's Cove, where old-growth yellow poplars yet remained.
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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.
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They lay under a stand of yellow poplars, and the leaves rustled incessantly though no wind could be felt.
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Yellow poplars, faint as mist, rose slender against the sky along a black shining stream that swirled beside the track.
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It has been a real thrill to see cypress, sycamore and even a few yellow poplars, survive our rugged winters.
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A small creek ran through the gap and trees lined it, a few yellow poplars but mainly sycamore and birch and hemlock.