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• n  the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees
• n  light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer

• It had been made in France somewhere around 1780, probably by a craftsman named Martin Carlin: a spindly, exquisite and useless object, all tulipwood and Sevres porcelain .
• Every day, crowds of visitors roam the docks, hypnotized by a strange lumbering beast: a 50-ton (45-metric-ton) steel-and-tulipwood elephant, carrying passengers on its back and .

• true tulipwood
• whitewood
• white poplar
• yellow poplar