whitewood

white +‎ wood

whitewood (countable and uncountable, plural whitewoods)

1. Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, as the tulip tree.
   1. Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree
   2. Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics
   3. Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena
   4. Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech), an Australian rainforest tree
   5. Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree
   6. Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.
   7. Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.
2. The wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)
3. (pinball) A prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork.
   • 2001, Jacqueline L. Longe, How Products are Made:

     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.

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