1. 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
   "The tulip poplar can grow to over 150 feet tall";
   - tulip tree, yellow poplar, canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera

Derived forms: tulip poplars

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree

Part of: genus Liriodendron, Liriodendron

Encyclopedia: Tulip poplar