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noun
Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
An Australian rainforest tree of species Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: pinball
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noun
light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tulipwood, true tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar
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Broader terms: wood
History
From white + wood.
