tulip : Idioms & Phrases

• noun African plant with bright green evergreen leaves and umbels of many usually deep violet-blue flowers
  blue African lily; African lily; Agapanthus africanus.
  

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• noun short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia
  wild crocus; Eastern pasque flower; Pulsatilla patens; American pasqueflower; prairie anemone; American pulsatilla; Anemone ludoviciana; lion's beard.
  

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• noun Eurasian tulip with small flowers blotched at the base
  Tulipa clusiana; candlestick tulip.
  

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• noun spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa
  Haemanthus coccineus.
  

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• noun any of several long-stemmed tulips that flower in May; have egg-shaped variously colored flowers
  

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• noun any of several very tall, late blooming tulips bearing large squarish flowers on sturdy stems
  

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• noun mariposa with clusters of bell-shaped vermilion or orange or yellow flowers atop short stems; southern California to Arizona and Mexico
  Calochortus kennedyi.
  

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• noun small early blooming tulip
  Tulipa suaveolens; Tulipa armena.
  

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• noun Eurasian tulip with small flowers blotched at the base
  Tulipa clusiana; candlestick tulip.
  

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• noun any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico
  mariposa; mariposa lily.
  

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• noun native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage
  Hunnemania fumariifolia; golden cup.
  

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• noun mariposa having loose clusters of one to three handsome lilac flowers resembling umbels atop stout erect stems; arid northwestern North America east of Cascade Mountains from southern British Columbia to northern California
  Calochortus macrocarpus.
  

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• noun small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana
  Calochortus elegans; elegant cat's ears.
  

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• noun a flowerbed in which tulips are growing
  

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• noun one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
  prairie gentian; Eustoma grandiflorum; bluebell.
  

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• noun Mexican epiphytic orchid with glaucous grey-green leaves and lemon- to golden-yellow flowers appearing only partially opened; sometimes placed in genus Cattleya
  Encyclia citrina; Cattleya citrina.
  

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• noun tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work
  yellow poplar; Liriodendron tulipifera; tulip poplar; canary whitewood.
  

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• noun tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work
  yellow poplar; Liriodendron tulipifera; tulip poplar; canary whitewood.
  

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• . (a) A large American tree bearing tuliplike flowers. See Liriodendron. (b) A West Indian malvaceous tree (Paritium, ∨ Hibiscus, tiliaceum).

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Tu"lip-eared` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having erect, pointed ears; prick-eared; -- said of certain dogs.

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Tu"lip-shell` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolaria tulipa) native of the Southern United States. The name is sometimes applied also to other species of Fasciolaria.

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• noun mariposa having clusters of a few large deep yellow bell-shaped flowers atop slender stems; California coastal ranges
  Calochortus luteus.
  

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