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Definition of Tulip tree
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.
Group relationships: Genus Liriodendron, Liriodendron
Terms within: True Tulipwood, Tulipwood, White Poplar, Whitewood, Yellow Poplar
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Definition of Tulip tree
1. Noun. A North American tree, ''Liriodendron tulipfera'', that has squarish leaves, cone-shaped fruit and an aromatic odour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tulip Tree
Literary usage of Tulip tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"(L. Tulipifera) tulip tree i. Genus MAGNOLIA, Linn. The magnolias include twenty
species; twelve are found in eastern and southern Asia, two in Mexico, ..."
2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"tulip tree, from iU tuli|>-like flower* j and Saddle Tree, from the form of
iu'leaven. The French and Gt-rman n.imes are literal translations of the word* ..."
3. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"The elder Michaux measured a tulip-tree, three and a half miles from Louisville,
Kentucky, which was twenty-two feet and a half in circumference five feet ..."
4. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"tulip tree, Whitewood, Yel- Hickory Poplar (Va., W. Va., low Poplar (local and
com- NC). mon names). Blue Poplar (Del., W. Ya.). Poplar (R. 1., Del., NC, ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1804)
"The leaves of the Tulip-tree are large, of a firm, compact texture, ...
Virginian Tulip-tree, with maple-leaves, which seem to be cut at the extremity. ..."
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