whitewood noun.
['hwʌɪtwʊd] L17.[from WHITE adjective + WOOD noun1.]1. Any of various trees with white or light-coloured wood;
esp. (a) N. Amer. the tulip tree,
Liriodendron tulipifera; the basswood,
Tilia americana;
(b) Austral. a small tree of arid regions,
Atalaya hemiglauca (family Sapindaceae), with grey-green foliage valuable as fodder. Also
whitewood tree.
L17.2. Any light-coloured wood, esp. as not (yet) stained or varnished;
spec. wood of the Norway spruce,
Picea abies, imported from Continental Europe, or (more fully
American whitewood) that of the tulip tree,
Liriodendron tulipifera.
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