whitewood
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English
Etymology
Noun
whitewood (countable and uncountable, plural whitewoods)
- 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.
- 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.