Tulip tree Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    yellow poplar; Liriodendron tulipifera; tulip poplar; canary whitewood.

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Definitions
  1. . (a) A large American tree bearing tuliplike flowers. See Liriodendron. (b) A West Indian malvaceous tree (Paritium, ∨ Hibiscus, tiliaceum).

Webster 1913