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Definition of Tulip poplar

1. Noun. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tulip Poplar

Literary usage of Tulip poplar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"The trade names "yellow poplar" and "tulip poplar" are used to designate this tree, which is known to the'botanists as the "tulip tree" and they have no ..."

2. Washington and His Generals: Or, Legends of the Revolution by George Lippard (1847)
"The breeze tossed the magnificent limbs of the Tulip-Poplar. Grouped under its shadow ... They stood grouped under the Tulip-Poplar; but their prisoner? ..."

3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1892)
"The tulip poplar was .not a success, as the rabbits and field mice during winter ate off from the tender seedlings the sweet, juicy bark, and destroyed ..."

4. The Forests of Maryland by Maryland State Board of Forestry, Fred Wilson Besley (1916)
"The mountain forests are made up principally of chestnut and chestnut oak, white, black and scarlet oaks, hickory, tulip poplar and gum. ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"A safe and almost sure practice to pursue with the tulip poplar, Sweet- gum, Sour-gum, Hickories, Magnolias, and all trees that are usually found impatient ..."

6. Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark: 194 Essays from the Pages of by Robert A. Saindon (2003)
"It is Liriodendron tulipifera L., and is known by a variety of colloquial names depending on the region, among them, tulip tree, tulip-poplar, yellow-poplar ..."

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