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Definition: Tulipwood |
TulipwoodNoun1. The variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees. 2. Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: TulipwoodSynonyms: true tulipwood (n), white poplar (n), whitewood (n), yellow poplar (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Brazilian tulipwood (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), pinkwood. |
Crosswords: Tulipwood |
| English words defined with "tulipwood": Harpullia pendula ♦ Moreton Bay tulipwood ♦ tulipwood tree. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Portugal | Light-colored wood types, like cherry and tulipwood have reportedly been in increasing demand for the manufacture of contemporary furniture. (references) |
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| "Tulipwood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tulipwood" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tulipwood": Moreton Bay tulipwood ♦ Queensland tulipwood ♦ true tulipwood ♦ tulipwood tree. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tulipwood | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tulipwood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Tulpenholz. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ulipwoodtay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia variabilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tulipwood": tulipwoods. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-o-o-p-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: outplod. | |
-3 letters: toluid. | |
-4 letters: ootid, outdo, pilot, poilu, polio, poult, topoi, tulip, uplit, would. | |
-5 letters: diol, dipt, doit, dolt, duit, idol, lido, litu, loop, loot, loti, loud, loup, lout, olio, plod, plot, plow, polo, pood, pool, pout, puli, toil, told, tolu, tool, topi, updo, wild, wilt, wold, wood, wool. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-o-o-p-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: tulipwoods. | |
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