whitewood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
    true tulipwood; tulipwood; white poplar; yellow poplar.

WordNet

White"wood` noun
Definitions
  1. The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc. ✍ Several other kinds of light-colored wood are called whitewood in various countries, as the wood of Bignonia leucoxylon in the West Indies, of Pittosporum bicolor in Tasmania, etc.

Webster 1913