Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tulip_tree

1 sense of tulip tree

Sense 1
tulip tree, tulip poplar, yellow poplar, canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera -- (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)
       => angiospermous tree, flowering tree -- (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)