† verportn.
Obsolete.
A class of tulips (see quots.).
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Darwin tulip1889
1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xix. 364 The plain tulips..are called whole blowers, or breeders; and according as they break into other colours, stripes and variegations, are denominated and classed into baguettes, bybloemens, verports, and bizarres.
1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. ii. 832 The Dutch florists class their late-blowing tulips as under:..Prime baguets,..Baguets Rigaut's,..Incomparable Verports.
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