[ noun ] any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower <noun.plant>
Tulip \Tu"lip\, n. [F. tulipe, OF. also tulipan, It. tulipano, tulipa, from Turk. tulbend, dulbend, literally, a turban, Per. dulband; -- so called from the resemblance of the form of this flower to a turban. See {Turban}.] (Bot.) Any plant of the liliaceous genus {Tulipa}. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers.
{Tulip tree}. (a) A large American tree bearing tuliplike flowers. See {Liriodendron}. (b) A West Indian malvaceous tree ({Paritium tiliaceum} syn. {Hibiscus tiliaceum}).
For instance the shortie jacket over legs alone became a sort of pretty coat-dress this time and in fact was cut sexily like a tulip.
In 1634, it was tulip varietals; in 1987, a Dutch artist's sunflowers and irises.
Last year, my most urgent question was about tulip fire.
Boston, a 26-year Park Service veteran, is especially proud of the "tulip library," a broad, looping cluster of 95 small beds of the proud clarions of spring that lies near the Tidal Basin south of the Washington Monument.
Nobody will give me a grant if I plant a glorious grove of ginkgos or an avenue of tulip trees which are beautifully foreign.
Here there is an evening dress worth blowing the budget for - a black tulip split, strapless cotton and silk affair from the New York collection which has 50 per cent off, reduced from Pounds 940 to Pounds 485.
There is a touch of tulip bulb fever about the rise of some emerging markets.
The Cretan tulip, saxatilis, however, she charges with "stinginess of behavior," this species having "never seen fit to give me a single flower.