tulipn.
/ˈtjuːlɪp/, /ˈtʃuːlɪp/, U.S. /ˈt(j)uləp/ 1.
a. A bulbous plant of the genus Tulipa (N.O. Liliaceæ), esp. the species T. Gesneriana, introduced from Turkey into Western Europe in the 16th cent., and since extensively cultivated in very numerous varieties, blooming in spring, with broad bell-shaped or cup-shaped, usually erect, showy flowers, of various colours and markings; also, the flower itself.The first mention of it by a Western European is by Busbek (c1554), the Emperor's ambassador, on the way from Adrianople to Constantinople, where ‘ingens ubique florum copia offerebatur, narcissorum, hyacinthorum, et eorum quos Turcae tulipan vocant’. It was grown by the Fuggers at Augsburg, where it was seen and described by Gesner in 1561. It was introduced successively in Vienna, Mechlin, France, and England; it is mentioned by Lyte in his transl. of Dodoneus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip
lily narcissus1578
tulip1578
Turk's cap1597
breeder1660
fool's coat1669
morilliona1678
edger1688
eger1706
chequered tulip1759
parrot tulip?1786
verport1798
Rembrandt1829
bybloemen1843
wild tulip1861
Darwin tulip1889
α.
β. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 57 You cannot stirre abroad but you shall be presented by the Deruises and Ianizaries, with tulips and trifles.1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. 139 The bloud-red Tulip with a yellow bottome.1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. 140 Tulipa purpurea. The purple Tulip. Tulipa rubra amethistina. The bright red Tulip.1758 S. Johnson Idler 11 Nov. 249 Another searches the world for tulips.1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 28 A Dutch love For tulips.1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 228 Tulips were introduced from Constantinople, and first bloomed in the beautiful grounds of Heinrich Herwart, in 1559.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lii. 212 Of Tulpia, or Tulipa... The great Tulpia, or rather Tulipa.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lii. 213 The greater Tulpia is brought from Grece, and the Countrie about Constantinople... The greater is called both Tulpia, and Tulpian, and of some Tulipa, which is a Turkie name or worde, we may call it Lillynarcissus.
1582 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 165 Now within these foure yeeres there haue bene brought into England from Vienna..diuers kinds of flowers called Tulipas.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 116 Tvulipa, or the Dalmatian cap, is a strang and forraine flower.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 117 After [the Tulipa of Bolonia] hath beene some fewe daies flowred, the points and brims of the flower turne backward, like a Dalmatian or Turkes cap, called Tulipan, Tolepan, Turban, and Turfan, whereof it tooke his name.]
1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. ii. iii. 405 As a Tulipant to the Sunne (which our Herbalists call Narcissus) when it shines, is..a glorious flowre exposing it selfe.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. viii. 46 The early Tulipa (and so all other Tulipas) springeth out of the ground with his leaues folded one within another.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. viii. 66 We call it in English the Turkes Cap, but most vsually Tulipa.
b. Applied, usually with defining word, to species of this, and various plants more or less resembling it, or their flowers; also to the flowers of the tulip-tree n.; in South Africa, to a poisonous herb also called tulip-grass n. at Compounds 2. African tulip n. the genus Hæmanthus (N.O. Amaryllidaceæ). Cape tulip n. name for several South African plants: (a) various species of Homeria (= tulip-grass n. at Compounds 2); (b) Melanthium uniflorum ( Bæometra columellaris); (c) Red Cape tulip, Hæmanthus coccineus., chequered tulip n., drooping tulip n. = wild tulip n., (b). native tulip n. of Australia (see quot. 1898, and tulip-tree n. 2a). parrot tulip n. (see parrot n.1 4). wild tulip n. (a) Tulipa sylvestris, a rare and doubtful native of Britain, with fragrant yellow flowers; (b) a name for the wild fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris; (c) in California, = butterfly tulip n. at butterfly n. Compounds 2b.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > tulip-tree or flowers
poplar1700
tulip-tree1705
tulip1759
yellow poplar1759
canoewood1762
liriodendron1802
white poplar1814
saddle leaf1820
saddle-tree1843
tulip poplar1869
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > fritillary
Fritillaria1578
crown imperial1595
chequered daffodil1597
guinea-hen flower1597
Persian lily1597
fritillary1633
imperial crown1664
drooping tulip1759
snake's head1859
snake-head1884
snake's-head lily1899
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip
lily narcissus1578
tulip1578
Turk's cap1597
breeder1660
fool's coat1669
morilliona1678
edger1688
eger1706
chequered tulip1759
parrot tulip?1786
verport1798
Rembrandt1829
bybloemen1843
wild tulip1861
Darwin tulip1889
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > allied flowers
summer fool1597
winter daffodil1615
Jacobaea lily1752
African tulip1759
Jacobean lily1770
haemanthus1771
alstroemeria1775
snowflake1777
chandelier lily1818
hippeastrum1821
clivia1828
Vallota1837
sprekelia1840
Murray lily1847
knight's star1855
Natal lily1855
Loddon lily1882
Peruvian lily1883
spider lily1887
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > African plants > other African plants
Hottentot fig1731
wait-a-bit1785
goat's foot1787
Strelitzia1789
aandblom1793
grapple-plant1822
tile-root1829
neb-neb1839
Cape tulip1850
bird-of-paradise flower1855
dimorphotheca1861
aandblommetjie1870
lithops1938
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > mariposa lily
butterfly tulip1860
star tulip1860
wild tulip1861
mariposa lily1868
butterfly lily1880
satin bells1897
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > tulp
tulp1835
tulip1885
tulip-grass1900
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian
banksia1787
waratah1793
honeysuckle1803
pinkwood1824
honeysuckle tree1825
rose1825
blue bush1828
dogwood1828
parrotbill1829
tulip-tree1830
whitebeard1832
swamp-oak1833
bauera1835
mungitec1837
bottlebrush1839
clianthus1841
glory-pea1848
boronia1852
koromiko1855
pituri1861
Sturt's pea1865
scrub vine1866
pea-bush1867
cotton-bush1876
Australian honeysuckle1881
peach myrtle1882
saloop bush1884
naupaka1888
dog rose1896
native tulip1898
snow bush1909
wedding-bush1923
Hebe1961
mountain pepper1965
1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Tulip-tree The Flowers..[have] six Petals,..which form a Sort of Bellshaped Flower, from whence the Inhabitants of North America gave it the Title of Tulip.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 330 African Tulip, Hæmanthus... Chequer'd Tulip, Fritillaria.
1850 L. Pappe Floræ Capensis Medicæ Prodromus 26 Moræa collina, Thbg. (known to almost every child in the colony as the Cape Tulip), not for its therapeutical use, but for its obnoxiousness.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 276 Wild Tulip..has a much smaller blossom than the cultivated species,..its colour within is bright yellow, and externally yellowish-green.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 144 Donker, my best ox is dead, having got at a poisonous kind of grass, called by the Dutch tulp.]
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Cape Tulip, Melanthium uniflorum (Tulipa Breyiana).
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Red Cape, Hæmanthus coccineus... Drooping T., Fritillaria Meleagris.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Calochortus, Butterfly-Tulip,..Mariposa Lily,..Wild Tulip, of California.
1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines iv The other three [oxen] died from eating the poisonous herb called ‘tulip’.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Telopea,..the genus containing..the Waratah... The name has been corrupted popularly into Tulip, and the flower is often called the Native Tulip.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 14 May 12/1 A field..covered with the purple blossoms of the ‘tulip’, as the villagers call it [the fritillary].
2. figurative.
a. A showy person or thing, or one greatly admired.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > ostentatious person
peacocka1425
ruffler1536
struttera1591
flaunter1598
glisterer1628
tulip1647
parader1747
swasher1821
swash1824
dazzler1839
rooster1840
show-off1841
swankera1846
Vanity-Fairian1847
grandstander1896
spotlighter1907
swank1913
swankpot1914
showboat1932
showboater1941
pavisander1950
1647 A. Cowley Beauty in Mistress iii Beauty, thou active passive Ill!..Thou Tulip, who thy Stock in Paint dost waste.
1672 Mede's Wks. Life p. xlii Such Fellow-commoners who came to the University only to see it and to be seen..he call'd The University-Tulips, that made a Gaudy shew for a while.
1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man v. 50 My little Blossom! my Gilliflower! my Rose! my Pink! my Tulip!
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 473/2 Morgiana was a tulip among women, and the tulip-fanciers all came flocking round her.
b. slang. my tulip, ‘my fine fellow’.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [noun] > good person
bricka1845
my tulip1847
honey1848
a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869
rattler1886
toff1898
one of the best1917
goody1934
1847 Punch 16 Oct. 148/1 This, my tulip, is a salle de danse.
1875 Punch 21 Aug. 69/2 But now, save as a dream of an era departed, We ‘Remember the Grotto’, my tulips, no more.
1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Tales Western Moors iii. 67 'Cos for this, my tulip,..work and me fell out a long time back.
3.
a. A bell-shaped outward swell in the muzzle of a gun, now generally disused.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel > muzzle > parts of
flash-rim1867
tulip1884
18841 [see sense 1b].
1889 Engineer Oct. 314 Breech-loading guns,..gradually tapering from a diameter of 4 ft. 7 in. at the breech to 17 in. near the muzzle, which possesses what artillerists call a tulip or ‘swell’.
b. An explosive charge used to destroy a length of railway track. Now Historical.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > tube for blowing up wire or railway
Bangalore torpedo1913
tulip1918
1918 T. E. Lawrence in Lett. (1938) 250 A gang of four men can lay twenty ‘tulips’ in an hour on easy ballast, and for each two slabs (and single fuse) you ruin a sleeper, a yard of bank and two rails.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. May 599/2 J. and I tried our prentice hands at the new game of ‘planting tulips’.
1956 Railway Mag. Mar. 167/1 ‘Tulips’, so called because of the appearance of the track after they had ‘flowered’, were the most effective means of derailing a train.
4. slang. A bishop's mitre, or a figure of one.
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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > mitre
mitrec1390
forked cap?1521
tulipa1879
a1879 A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. iii. 66 (note) I heard one of the fellows..say ‘No, It's not a Tulip’, meaning that there was no mitre on the panel [of the carriage].
Compounds
C1. General attributive. Also tulip-tree n., tulip-wood n.
a.
tulip-bed n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > flower-bed > of specific flower
rose bedOE
violary1657
rose-plat1676
tulip-bed1822
1822 T. G. Wainewright in London Mag. June 552/2 A delicate Schiavone, various as a tulip bed with rich broken tints.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 526 Or tulipbeds of Rush below.
tulip-bulb n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip > parts of
tulip-bulb1664
tulip-root1711
tulip leaf1718
tulip flower1760
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 69 in Sylva Take up your Tulip-bulbs.
tulip-fancier n.
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1843Tulip fanciers [see sense 2a].
1877 G. Stables Pract. Kennel Guide vii. §3 81 [Ears of Skye Terrier] may be pricked, or tulip.
tulip-farm n.
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1901 Chambers's Jrnl. 690/1 It was not easy to leave the daffodils for the tulip-farm.
tulip-field n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > collections of specific plants
water gardena1626
hortus siccus1687
heathery1804
muscarium1853
filicetum1856
tulip-field1969
1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol vii. 38 Amsterdam was cold... Carlos told me..not [to] stop off to look at any tulip fields.
tulip flower n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip > parts of
tulip-bulb1664
tulip-root1711
tulip leaf1718
tulip flower1760
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 330 Tulip-flower, Bignonia.
tulip-glass n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
glassc888
verrea1382
Venice glass1527
rummer1625
bottle glass1626
Malaga glassa1627
flute1649
flute-glass1668
long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
tumbler-glass1795
Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > of specific shape
scallop1401
shipc1410
friar1463
columbe1488
culver1500
bell1651
cornet1677
churn1747
tulip-glass1755
situla1804
nacelle1873
thyrse1876
tsun1958
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 416/1 Several lacrymatories have also been dug up, some are of glass,..and some are of burnt earth, like our tulip-glasses.
1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke ii. 49 He was carrying two large tulip glasses which he had overfilled.
1976 D. Francis In Frame v. 83 When Jik opened the champagne he poured it into shining tulip glasses.
tulip-grower n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > floriculture > floriculturist > of specific flower
tulipist1658
rosarian1862
rosist1863
orchidist1881
tulip-grower1882
orchidacean1887
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Oct. 4 A Dutch tulip-grower.
tulip-mania n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip > craze for tulips
tulipomania1710
tulip-mania1839
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 314/1 The extravagances of those visited by the tulip mania.
tulip pillar n.
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1683 London Gaz. No. 1810/4 Lost.., a Gold Pendulum Watch,..with..a Steel Chain, and Tulip Pillars.
tulip race n.
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1728 J. Thomson Spring 27 Then comes the Tulip-Race, where Beauty plays Her gayest Freaks.
tulip-time n.
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1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel 41 Its tuliptime and playtime.
b.
tulip-fancying n.
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1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 262 A tulip-fancying fellow,..intended for a Dutch gardener.
tulip-shaped adj.
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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §190 Ornamental tulip-shaped chimney-pots.
tulip-tinted adj.
C2.
tulip-apple n. a variety of apple with bright-coloured fruit.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > apple tree > varieties of
birtle-tree1483
wyde?1523
renneta1568
pearmain1597
codling tree1629
codling1651
passe-pomme1691
Rhode Island greening1795
Spitzenberg1795
tulip-apple1842
Wagener1848
sweet-bough1850
Lord Derby1862
Chinese crab1882
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 529 The tree is still more beautiful when covered with fruit, especially with such as are highly-coloured, such as the red Astrachan, the tulipapple, &c.
tulip break n. (also tulip breaking) the variegated colouring of certain tulip flowers, caused by a virus infection.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > viral diseases > associated with flowers
tulip break1929
1929 U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 1928 596 (heading) Tulip ‘breaking’ is proved to be caused by mosaic infection.
1958 Manch. Guardian 28 May 6/3 These changes of colour are symptoms of the virus disease known as tulip break.
tulip choke n. (cf. sense 3 and choke n.2 4).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > part of gun
tulip choke1884
1884 F. F. R. Burgess Sporting Fire-arms 4 The sketches show the ordinary choke and the tulip choke.
tulip ear n. of a dog: see quot. 1877.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > parts of > parts of) ear(s)
prick ears1573
button ear1867
tulip ear1877
leather1883
1877 G. Stables Pract. Kennel Guide (ed. 3) iii. 36 Tulip-ear.—Partly pricked, and drooping at the tip.
tulip-eared adj.
tulip fire n. a fungus disease of tulips, caused by Botrytis tulipæ and producing speckled, discoloured leaves and flowers.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with flowers
white rust1677
white rust1815
hollyhock fungus1883
hollyhock disease1898
hollyhock rust1899
ray blight1907
tulip fire1931
1931 Pamphl. Seale-Hayne Agric. Coll. XXXVI. 27 Several suggestions have been made as possible methods for the control of Tulip Fire.
1976 Homes & Gardens June 131/2 Tulips are particularly susceptible to tulip fire; this produces malformed leaves and shoots, which wither and stop growing.
tulip-grass n. a name for several South African poisonous herbs of the genus Homeria (N.O. Iridaceæ).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > tulp
tulp1835
tulip1885
tulip-grass1900
1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 574/1 He has eaten tulip-grass.
tulip-laurel n. ? a species of Magnolia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > magnolias
sweet bay1716
umbrella-tree1739
swamp laurel1743
magnolia1748
tulip-tree1751
beaver-tree1756
tulip-laurel1766
champakc1770
cucumber-tree1784
mountain magnolia1785
swamp sassafras1796
laurel magnolia1806
beaver-wood1810
big laurel1810
yulan1822
chatta1834
cucumber1835
port wine magnolia1943
magnolioid1988
1766 W. Stork Acct. E.-Florida 47 The magnolia, tulip-laurel, tupelow-tree, are all beautiful.
tulip leaf n. the leaf of a tulip; (also) the designation of a shade of green.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip > parts of
tulip-bulb1664
tulip-root1711
tulip leaf1718
tulip flower1760
1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 333 But Tulip-leaves, and Limon-peel Help only to adorn the Meal.
1926 Daily Express 1 Sept. 10 Tulip Leaf, Copper, Beech, Palm Green.
tulip poplar n. = tulip-tree n. 1 (see poplar n. 3).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > tulip-tree or flowers
poplar1700
tulip-tree1705
tulip1759
yellow poplar1759
canoewood1762
liriodendron1802
white poplar1814
saddle leaf1820
saddle-tree1843
tulip poplar1869
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 99 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Endecatomus rugosus..has been also taken under the bark of tulip poplars.
tulip-poppy n. a Mexican papaveraceous plant, Hunnemannia fumariæfolia, with flowers like those of Eschscholtzia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of south or tropical America
marvel of Peru1597
flower of the night1665
world's wonder1706
butterfly flower1731
mirabilis1754
four o'clock flower1756
bastard mustard1759
Browallia1782
bastard plantain1796
cleome1806
alonsoa1812
gloxinia1816
schizanthus1823
butterfly plant1825
petunia1825
sinningia1826
salpiglossis1827
mask flower1834
poinsettia1836
guaco1844
spiderwort1846
mist flower1848
balisier1858
spider flower1861
sun plant1862
eucharis1866
pretty-by-night1869
Rocky Mountain bee plant1870
urn-flower1891
tulip-poppy1909
smithiantha1917
poor man's orchid1922
ten o'clock1953
tiger-iris-
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Hunnemannia..contains a single Mexican species, H. fumariæfolia, now somewhat cultivated under the name tulip-poppy.
tulip-root n. (a) the ‘root’ or bulb of a tulip; (b) a disease of oats, characterized by a swelling at the base of the stem, caused by a minute nematoid worm.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip > parts of
tulip-bulb1664
tulip-root1711
tulip leaf1718
tulip flower1760
the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects > associated with crop or food plants
cockle1777
ear cockle1777
raddleman1798
purple1807
yellows1808
sedging1820
gout1828
sedge-root1837
leaf blister1858
tulip-root1875
root-knot1888
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 108. ¶3 He carries a Tulip-Root in his Pocket.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 360/2 The oat frequently suffers much from a disease called ‘segging’ or ‘tulip root’.
tulip-shell n. (a) a bivalve of the genus Tellina; (b) any gastropod of the family Fasciolariadæ, as Fasciolaria tulipa.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > miscellaneous types > member of family Fasciolariadae
tulip-shell1835
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Tellinidae
tellina1657
tellin1706
tellinet1708
setting sun1823
tulip-shell1835
pipia1837
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. viii. 265 The tulip-shell (Tellina) when it walks,..opens and shuts its valves.
1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 180 Family Fasciolariadæ. (Tulip-shells and Mitres).
Derivatives
tulip-like adj.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > of or having lilies > of tulips
flamed1665
tulip-like?1711
broken1731
Rembrandt1829
?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IX. Table 85 Red Tulip-like Flowers.
tuliˈpiferous adj. [-ferous comb. form] bearing flowers like tulips, as the tulip-tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [adjective]
tulipiferous1786
1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants 38/1 in Gardeners Daily Assistant Tulipiferous, or common tulip bearing [Tulip tree].
ˈtulipine n. Chemistry a poisonous stimulant alkaloid obtained from the garden tulip.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > poisons > [noun] > others
oxalic acid1788
nicotine1817
alkarsin1838
tetanine1857
muscarine1869
cinnoline1883
saprine1887
isocyanic acid1891
mescaline1896
toxicodendrol1898
tube curare1898
tulipine1900
fluoroacetamide1909
thalassin1909
yperite1917
protoanemonin1920
Lewisite1921
organochloride1966
1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 721/2 Tulipin.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Tulipine.
ˈtulipist n. a person devoted to the cultivation of tulips.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > floriculture > floriculturist > of specific flower
tulipist1658
rosarian1862
rosist1863
orchidist1881
tulip-grower1882
orchidacean1887
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A6v The Ingenuous delight of Tulipists.
ˌtulipoˈmania n. [-mania comb. form] a craze for tulips, as that which prevailed in Holland in the 17th cent.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip > craze for tulips
tulipomania1710
tulip-mania1839
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 218. ⁋7 A Person of good Sense, had not his Head been touched with..the..Tulippomania.
1842 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 Feb. 32/3 When the Tulipomania infected Holland, and single roots were sold for many hundred pounds.
ˌtulipoˈmaniac n. one affected with tulipomania.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip > craze for tulips > one affected by
tulipomaniac1842
1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 426 The prices of these roots..are enough..to delight the cupidity of a Dutch tulipo-maniac.
ˈtulipy adj. abounding in tulips; †n., a tulip.
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?a1650 W. Bosworth Chast & Lost Lovers (1651) i. 882 That blood with wat'ry eye Which leaves her breast to turn t' a tulippy.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 322 Shaarmal's tulipy dell.
Draft additions 1993
elliptical for tulip-glass n. at Compounds 1a.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
glassc888
verrea1382
Venice glass1527
rummer1625
bottle glass1626
Malaga glassa1627
flute1649
flute-glass1668
long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
tumbler-glass1795
Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
1961 in N. Webster
1980 Times 29 Nov. (‘Countdown to Christmas’ Suppl.) p. xiv/4 Fine wine is ideally drunk from a perfectly plain tulip or goblet.
1988 Los Angeles Times 24 Apr. (Calendar) 98/4 The wine glasses here are good-sized tulips (not elegant but very serviceable).
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