Source : WordNet®

yellow poplar
     n 1: light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture
          and veneer [syn: {tulipwood}, {true tulipwood}, {whitewood},
           {white poplar}]
     2: 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
        [syn: {tulip tree}, {tulip poplar}, {canary whitewood}, {Liriodendron
        tulipifera}]