[mod.L., f. Gr. λείριον lily + δένδρον tree.] A genus of plants, N.O. Magnoliaceæ, of which the N. American Tulip-tree is the only representative.
[1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Liriodendrum,… a name given by Linnæus to a genus of plants called tulipifera by Catesby and others, and by us the tulip tree.]
1802. M. Cutler, in Life, etc. (1888), II. 104. A number of trees, magnolias, bignonias, Liriodendrons, etc.
1847. Nat. Encycl., I. 925. The liriodendron.
