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whitewood (countable and uncountable, plural whitewoods)

1. Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such 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. An Australian rainforest tree of species Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech)
   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. (uncountable) 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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