'yellow poplar' definitions:

Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer [syn: tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar]

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 [syn: tulip tree, tulip poplar, yellow poplar, canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera]