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yellow poplar

noun

  1. the wood of the tulip tree.


yellow poplar

noun

  1. another name for tulip tree tulipwood


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Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow poplar1

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75

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Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

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