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.
2.
African 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
3.
any of various other trees with tulip-shaped flowers, such as the magnolia
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