noun
1. a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces
• Syn: ↑white aspen, ↑abele, ↑aspen poplar, ↑silver-leaved poplar, ↑Populus alba
• Hypernyms: ↑poplar, ↑poplar tree
2. light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
• Syn: ↑tulipwood, ↑true tulipwood, ↑whitewood, ↑yellow poplar
• Hypernyms: ↑wood
• Substance Holonyms: ↑tulip tree, ↑tulip poplar, ↑yellow poplar, ↑canary whitewood, ↑Liriodendron tulipifera
Useful english dictionary. 2012.