whitewood

plural whitewoods

1. Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
   1. countableuncountableTerminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree
   2. countableuncountableCoccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics
   3. countableuncountablePetrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena
   4. countableuncountableAn Australian rainforest tree of species Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech)
   5. countableuncountableElaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree
   6. countableuncountableLiriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.
   7. countableuncountableTabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.
2. uncountableWood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)
3. countableuncountablepinballA prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork.

   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.

   2001, Jacqueline L. Longe, How Products are Made