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Tulip tree   /tˈuləp tri/   Listen
Tulip tree

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, yellow poplar.






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"Tulip tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... tree for shade may vary greatly at different times of its life, but a white pine always requires more light than a hemlock, and a beech throughout its life will flourish with less sunshine or reflected light than, for example, an oak or a tulip tree. ...
— The Training of a Forester • Gifford Pinchot

... flowers attractive, the seed pods which cling to the tree until away into the winter, add a bit of picturesqueness. The bright berries of the ash, the brilliant foliage of the sugar maple, the blossoms of the tulip tree, the bark of the white birch, and the leaves of the copper beech—all these are beauty points ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw



Words linked to "Tulip tree" :   genus Liriodendron, Liriodendron, flowering tree, white poplar, tulipwood, true tulipwood, angiospermous tree, whitewood



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