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white·wood
(wīt′wo͝od′, hwīt′-)n.
1. Any of various trees having soft light-colored wood, such as a tulip tree, basswood, or spruce.
2. The wood of any of these trees.
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whitewood
(ˈwaɪtˌwʊd)n
1. (Plants) any of various trees with light-coloured wood, such as the tulip tree, basswood, and cottonwood
2. (Forestry) the wood of any of these trees
3. (Plants) Also: whiteywood another name for mahoe
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white•wood
(ˈʰwaɪtˌwʊd, ˈwaɪt-)n.
1. any of numerous trees, as the basswood, yielding a white or light-colored wood.
2. the wood of these trees.
[1655–65]
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| Noun | 1. |  whitewood - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneercanary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip poplar, tulip tree, yellow poplar - 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 wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
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