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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tu′lip tree′, - Plant Biologya 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. Also called tu′lip pop′lar, yellow poplar.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: tulip tree n - Also called: tulip poplar, yellow poplar a North American magnoliaceous forest tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, having tulip-shaped greenish-yellow flowers and long conelike fruits
- a similar and related Chinese tree, L. chinense
- any of various other trees with tulip-shaped flowers, such as the magnolia
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