tulip tree


noun
  1. Also called tulip poplar, yellow poplar . a tall tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, of the magnolia family, native to the eastern U.S., having large, cup-shaped, green and orange flowers: the state tree of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Origin of tulip tree

1
An Americanism dating back to 1695–1705

Words Nearby tulip tree

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How to use tulip tree in a sentence

  • Before I rode off, I dug up some roots of the tulip-tree and chewed them, swallowing the juice, till I reached camp.

  • The tulip-tree grows best in warm loam in which there is a mixture of sand and vegetable mould superposed on clay and gravel.

  • The association of the bird with the flower goes further than color, too; for the tulip-tree is a favorite haunt of the orioles.

  • In one way the tulip-tree is closely connected with the most picturesque and interesting period of American development.

  • A rock jutting over the flood formed a convenient seat, and a tulip-tree lent a grateful shade.

    Audrey | Mary Johnston

British Dictionary definitions for tulip tree

tulip tree

noun
  1. Also called: tulip poplar, yellow poplar a North American magnoliaceous forest tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, having tulip-shaped greenish-yellow flowers and long conelike fruits

  2. a similar and related Chinese tree, L. chinense

  1. any of various other trees with tulip-shaped flowers, such as the magnolia

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