whitewood

IPA: hwˈaɪtwʊd

Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, as the tulip tree.
Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree
Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics
Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena
Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech), an Australian rainforest tree
Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.
Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.
The wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)
(pinball) A prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork.

Examples of "whitewood" in Sentences

Fig. 276 (A) shows another method that answers well for soft woods such as pine, American whitewood and satin walnut.
At the back, where the lowest stairs protruded into the room, the boy sat struggling with a knife and a piece of whitewood.
It was the stone pillow for Arrhae, and a couch of triple-thickness leather and whitewood, and a balding fur or two in far-sun weather: nothing more.
Fig. 7A shows a mahogany or other hardwood slip glued on the edge of a cheaper wood, such as pine or whitewood, as is the case on bookcase shelves when only the front edge is seen and polished.
Her figure, of medium height and broad build, with a tendency to embonpoint, was reflected by the mirror of her whitewood wardrobe, in a gown made under her own organization, of one of those half-tints, reminiscent of the distempered walls of corridors in large hotels.
Whenever he traveled between Tayouan and China he carried letters, and he continued polite diplomacy on behalf of the company. 33 Company officials knew he was also working for Chenggong, who, Tingbin told them, had entrusted him with money to buy war supplies — whitewood, feathers, cow jaws, and fish intestines — but they condoned this work "so long as [the weapons] be made there [in China] and not here."