Definition of "tulip tree" []

• A tall, deciduous, eastern North American tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) having large, tuliplike green and orange flowers, aromatic twigs, and yellowish wood that is easily worked. Also called poplar. (noun)
• See African tulip tree. (noun)

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• "Propped against a big tulip tree stood a long-barreled fowling piece, remnant from a previous century."
• "Here just by ye wilderness is ye tulip tree wch runns up of a great height and ye flower is on ye top; it flowers in August."
• "A hairy six-legged beast was strung up in the tulip tree near the walkway, dripping yellow blood into the grass."