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

2 senses of yellow poplar

Sense 1
tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar -- (light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer)
       => wood -- (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 2
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)