TULIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tulip mean? 

• TULIP (noun)
  The noun TULIP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TULIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TULIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tulip" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tulip"):

dwarf tulip; Tulipa armena; Tulipa suaveolens (small early blooming tulip)

candlestick tulip; lady tulip; Tulipa clusiana (Eurasian tulip with small flowers blotched at the base)

Tulipa gesneriana (tall late blooming tulip)

cottage tulip (any of several long-stemmed tulips that flower in May; have egg-shaped variously colored flowers)

Darwin tulip (any of several very tall, late blooming tulips bearing large squarish flowers on sturdy stems)

Holonyms ("tulip" is a member of...):

genus Tulipa; Tulipa (Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs)

 Context examples 

Where any of these wanted fortunes, I would provide them with convenient lodges round my own estate, and have some of them always at my table; only mingling a few of the most valuable among you mortals, whom length of time would harden me to lose with little or no reluctance, and treat your posterity after the same manner; just as a man diverts himself with the annual succession of pinks and tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss of those which withered the preceding year.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Its garden, too, glowed with flowers: hollyhocks had sprung up tall as trees, lilies had opened, tulips and roses were in bloom; the borders of the little beds were gay with pink thrift and crimson double daisies; the sweetbriars gave out, morning and evening, their scent of spice and apples; and these fragrant treasures were all useless for most of the inmates of Lowood, except to furnish now and then a handful of herbs and blossoms to put in a coffin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)