Tulip

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several bulbous plants of the genus Tulipa, native chiefly to Asia and widely cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
  • n. The flower of any of these plants.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa.
  • n. The flower of this plant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A plant of the genus Tulipa, of which several species are well-known garden bulbs with highly colored bell-shaped flowers, blooming in spring.
  • n. In ordnance, a bell-shaped outward swell of the muzzle of a gun, as a rule abandoned in modern ordnance.
  • n. A liliaceous plant, Bæometra columellaris (Tulipa Breyniana) of the Cape of Good Hope.
  • n. In California, same as butterfly-tulip: see above.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower
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