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ˈtu lɪp, ˈtyu-tulip

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tulipnoun

    any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower

Wiktionary

  1. tulipnoun

    The flower of this plant.

  2. Etymology: From Modern Latin tulipa, from tülbent, from دلبند, also the root of turban; cognate with Mazandarani تولیپ.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. TULIPnoun

    A flower.

    Etymology: tulipe, Fr. tulipa, Lat.

    It hath a lilly flower, composed of six leaves, shaped somewhat like a pitcher; the pointal rising in the middle of the flower is surrounded with stamina, and afterwards becomes an oblong fruit, which opens into three parts, and is divided into three cells, full of plain seeds, resting upon one another in a double row. To these may be added a coated root, with fibres on the lower part. The properties of a good tulip, according to the characteristicks of the best florists of the present age, are,
    1. It should have a tall stem.
    2. The flower should consist of six leaves, three within, and three without, the former being larger than the latter.
    3. Their bottom should be proportioned to their top; their upper part should be rounded off, and not terminate in a point.
    4. The leaves when opened should neither turn inward nor bend outward, but rather stand erect; the flower should be of a middling size, neither over large nor too small.
    5. The stripes should be small and regular, arising quite from the bottom of the flower. The chives should not be yellow, but of a brown colour. They are generally divided into three classes, viz. præcoces, or early flowers; media’s, or middling flowers; and serotines, or late flowers. The early blowing tulips are not near so fair, nor rise half so high as the late ones, but are chiefly valued for appearing so early in the spring. Their roots should be taken up and spread upon mats in a shady place to dry; after which they should be cleared from their filth, and put up in a dry place until the season for planting. Philip Miller.

    The tulip opens with the rising, and shuts with the setting sun. George Hakewill.

    Why tulips of one colour produce some of another, and running thro’ all, still escape a blue. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

Wikipedia

  1. Tulip

    Tulips (Tulipa) are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colours). They often have a different coloured blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the lily family, Liliaceae, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble by those who discovered it. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring. Growing wild over much of the Near East and Central Asia, tulips were cultivated in Constantinople as early as 1055. By the 15th century, tulips were among the most prized flowers; becoming the symbol of the Ottomans. While tulips had probably been cultivated in Persia from the tenth century, they did not come to the attention of the West until the sixteenth century, when Western diplomats to the Ottoman court observed and reported on them. They were rapidly introduced into Europe and became a much-sought-after commodity during tulip mania. Tulips were frequently depicted in Dutch Golden Age paintings, and have become associated with the Netherlands, the major producer for world markets, ever since. In the seventeenth century Netherlands, during the time of the tulip mania, an infection of tulip bulbs by the tulip breaking virus created variegated patterns in the tulip flowers that were much admired and valued. While truly broken tulips are not cultivated anymore, the closest available specimens today are part of the group known as the Rembrandts – so named because Rembrandt painted some of the most admired breaks of his time.Breeding programmes have produced thousands of hybrid and cultivars in addition to the original species (known in horticulture as botanical tulips). They are popular throughout the world, both as ornamental garden plants and as cut flowers.

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  1. tulip

    A tulip is a type of perennial flowering plant that belongs to the Liliaceae family. It is native to central and western Asia and is known for its brightly colored and symmetrically shaped blossoms, which can come in a variety of colors such as red, yellow, or white. Tulips are often grown for their ornamental value and are popular for use in gardens, flower arrangements, and as potted plants. They tend to bloom in the spring and have a bulb that is used for propagation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tulipnoun

    any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers

Wikidata

  1. Tulip

    The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which up to 109 species have been described and which belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's native range extends from as far west as Southern Europe, Anatolia, Israel, Palestine, North Africa, and Iran to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or to be displayed as fresh-cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tulip

    tū′lip, n. a genus of bulbous plants of the order Liliaceæ, with over forty species, having highly-coloured bell-shaped flowers.—adj. Tū′lip-eared, prick-eared, as a dog.—ns. Tulipomā′nia, a craze for the cultivation of tulips; Tū′lip-tree, a large North American tree, having tulip-like flowers; Tū′lip-wood, the soft, fine, straight-grained wood of the tulip-tree. [O. Fr. tulipe, tulippe, tulipan—Turk. tulbend, a turban.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TULIP

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tulip is ranked #70403 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tulip surname appeared 278 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tulip.

    97.4% or 271 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tulip in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tulip in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of tulip in a Sentence

  1. Michele Bachmann:

    My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and if I want to look, like, at tulip gardens, or, like, Georgian gardens, i love English gardens, how they're laid out. Japanese gardens, Asian gardens. So, I'm kind of a frustrated landscaper.

  2. Les Borsai:

    A tulip was a tulip, these things do have completely robust technologies connected to them.

  3. Michael Pachter:

    This is the tulip bubble all over again, he doesn’t even know what GameStop sells.

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