yellow poplar
the wood of the tulip tree.
Origin of yellow poplar
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How to use yellow poplar in a sentence
Dismount, fasten your horse to this tree, place yourself by the side of that large yellow poplar, and mind you do not shoot me!
Audubon and his Journals, Vol. 2 | Maria R. AudubonBy lumbermen it is usually known as yellow poplar, or more often shortened to poplar.
Trees of Indiana | Charles Clemon DeamIt is often divided commercially, according to color, into "white poplar" and "yellow poplar."
The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties | Charles H. (Charles Henry) Snowyellow poplar is used and cedar with or without the bark left on has its friends for houses of the first or second classes.
Bird Houses Boys Can Build | Albert F. SiepertCommercial value: The wood is commercially known as whitewood and yellow poplar.
Studies of Trees | Jacob Joshua Levison
British Dictionary definitions for yellow poplar
another name for tulip tree (def. 1), tulipwood (def. 1)
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