yellow poplar

Noun yellow poplar has 2 senses

• yellow poplar(n = noun.plant) true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer;
is a kind of wood

• yellow poplar(n = noun.plant) canary whitewood, liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree - 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;
is a member of genus liriodendron, liriodendron
is a kind of angiospermous tree, flowering tree