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Turk's cap
[Turk n.1]
†1. Early name for the tulip. Obs.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. lxxvii. §14. 120 It is called..after the Turkish name Tulipa, or it may be called Dalmatian Cap, or the Turkes Cap. 1629Parkinson Paradisus Table 12 The Turkes Cap, that is, the Tulipa.
2. The Martagon lily; also Turk's-cap lily. American Turk's-cap lily, Lilium superbum.
1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 54 Turning up their Leaves like the Martigon, or Turks Cap. 1778Milne Bot. Dict. (ed. 2) 130 Martagon lilly..having its petals rowled or turned backwards in form of a Turkish turbant; from which..the flower is generally known by the name of Turk's-cap. 1791Gentl. Mag. July 619/1 The Martagon or Turk's-cap Lily. 1884Miller Plant-n., Lilium superbum, Great American Turk's-Cap Lily, Swamp Lily. 1899Warner Capt. Locusts 5 A couple of blossoms of the crimson Turk's-cap lily. 1906Earl Selborne Pers. & Pol. Mem. II. xxxii. 268 A cream-coloured Turk's-cap and several kinds of white lilies.
3. The Melon-thistle, Cactus Melocactus: see quot. 1866; also Turk's cap cactus, Turk's head. Also, any of several other members of the genus Cactus.
1731P. Miller Gardeners Dict. s.v. Melocactus, The common or large Melon-Thistle, commonly call'd Turk⁓cap or Pope's-Head in the West-Indies. 1829Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 410 C[actus] melocactus, the great melon thistle or Turk's cap. 1866Treas. Bot. 733/2 Melocactus communis, the Turk's-cap Cactus, so called from the flowering portion on the top of the plant being of a cylindrical form and red colour like a fez cap. 1926Fawcett & Rendle Flora of Jamaica V. 283 Turk's Head, Turk's Cap, Pope's Head, Melon Thistle. 1951Dict. Gardening (R. Hort. Soc.) I. 345/2 The Turk's Cap. The species [of Cactus] are characterized by the formation of a woolly cap or cephalium when the plants reach flowering size.
4. A local name for the common aconite (Aconitum Napellus).
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Turk's cap. Ibid. 129 Pope's-Ode, the garden Monk's-hood or Turk's-cap. Aconitum napellus.
5. A variety of the great pumpkin, Cucurbita maxima.
1891in Cent. Dict.
6. Cookery. A form of mould. Cf. turban n. 1 g.
1859F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 178 Jelly and Cake Moulds... Turk's Cap. |