Whitewood

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.; Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.; Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.; Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.; An Australian rainforest tree of species Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech) countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.; Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.; Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.; Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    Wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.) uncountable
  5. 10
    A prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork. countable, uncountable

    "When the design seems satisfactory, the whitewood is wired to make it playable. Meanwhile the software developer has been creating the unique software to control the game."

Etymology

From white + wood.

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