tulip
See also: TULIP
English
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Etymology
From French tulipe, from earlier tulipan, from Turkish tülbent (“fine muslin, turban”), from Persian دلبند (dolband, “turban”), also the root of turban; cognate with Mazanderani تولیپ (“tulip”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tulip (plural tulips)
- A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa.
- 1876 — "The Tulip Mania", Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. CCCXL, April 1876, Vol. LII.
- "The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece."
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
- 1876 — "The Tulip Mania", Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. CCCXL, April 1876, Vol. LII.
- The flower of this plant.
Descendants
Descendants
Translations
plant
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See also
tulip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tulipa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Tulipa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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Noun
tulip (nominative plural tulips)
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