yellow poplar


noun
  1. the wood of the tulip tree.

Origin of yellow poplar

1
An Americanism dating back to 1765–75

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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!

  • By lumbermen it is usually known as yellow poplar, or more often shortened to poplar.

    Trees of Indiana | Charles Clemon Deam
  • It is often divided commercially, according to color, into "white poplar" and "yellow poplar."

  • yellow 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. Siepert
  • Commercial value: The wood is commercially known as whitewood and yellow poplar.

    Studies of Trees | Jacob Joshua Levison

British Dictionary definitions for yellow poplar

yellow poplar

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