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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



... field stood a large tulip tree, apparently of a century's growth, and one of the most gigantic. It looked like the father of the surrounding forest. A single tree of huge dimensions, standing all ...
— The New McGuffey Fourth Reader • William H. McGuffey

... east of the college buildings stands the Tulip Tree which sheltered the first settlers of Annapolis in 1649, and may have hidden away in the memory-cells of its stanch old heart reminiscences of a time when a bluff old Latin sailor, with more ambition in his soul than geography in his head, unwittingly blundered onto a New World. Whatever ...
— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett

... (Continued) The Hickories, Walnut, and Butternut Tulip Tree, Sweet Gum, Linden, Magnolia, Locust, Catalpa, Dogwood, Mulberry, and ...
— Studies of Trees • Jacob Joshua Levison



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



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