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Definition: Tulip |
TulipNoun1. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tulip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Etymology: Tulip \Tu"lip\, noun. [French expression tulipe, Old French also tulipan, Italian tulipano, tulipa, from Turk. tulbend, dulbend, literally, turban, Per. dulband; -- so called from the resemblance of the form of this flower to turban. See Turban.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tulips are plants of the genus Tulipa, in the lily family, Liliaceae. They are bulbous plants, grown for the very showy large flowers. There are around a hundred species, originating from the region from Turkey to the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains in Asia. Numerous forms have been bred for garden use.
Tulip: TulipaThe tulip is the national flower of Turkey, and tulip motifs feature prominently in Turkish folk arts. The first European cultivation of the tulip as a garden flower occurred in the Netherlands, where the early enthusiasm for the new flowers triggered a speculative frenzy now known as the tulipomania. The Netherlands and tulips are still associated with one another. The term 'Dutch tulips' is often used for the cultivated forms.
Tulips cannot be grown in tropical climates, as they require a cold winter season to grow successfully.
Some cultivated tulips have a striped or variegated flower, as in the illustration. This is primarily due to a viral infection of the bulb, so such striped varieties do not breed true from seed.
Random mutations often occur in the tulip bulb, creating new shades and variations in the flowers. These mutated bulbs used to be extremely valuable, as they could be used to establish a new line of tulips with a new and interesting colour.
cultivars : Tulipa batalinii 'Bronze Charm'
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tulip."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Flower, flow'ret gay, wildflower; rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, |
Ostentation | Adjective: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid; (big-sounding); gairish, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay; (ornate). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tulip |
| English words defined with "tulip": candlestick tulip ♦ dwarf tulip ♦ flower stalk ♦ genus Liriodendron ♦ lady tulip, Liriodendron ♦ Magnoliaceous ♦ scape ♦ true tulipwood, Tulipa armena, Tulipa clusiana, Tulipa gesneriana, Tulipa suaveolens, tulipwood, Turk's cap ♦ white poplar, whitewood ♦ yellow poplar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tulip": bulb fingers ♦ FARMWORKER, BULBS, fingertip fissured dermatitis ♦ Poplars ♦ tulip eczema, tulip finger. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tulip": turban. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tulip" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (tulip ). |
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Screenplays | Cirrus, Socrates, particle, decibel, hurricane, dolphin, tulip. (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson) I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) I mean its like a Tulip. (The Object of My Affection; writing credit: Wendy Wasserstein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Teenie Tulip (1970) The Black Tulip (1970) Miss Tulip Stays the Night (1955) The Black Tulip (1937) Tulip Fever (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship TULIP operating in post-World War II Philippines. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Tulip fields at the Wooden Shoe Bulb Company outside of Woodburn, Oregon. Credit: Sara Wilson. |
 | Microscope studies of structure of different types of seeds: tulip, stramonium, anagallis, coded arsmart, and azarum. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tulip tree in Cass Park, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gardens. Tulip garden, horizontal. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Arlington National Cemetery. Amphitheater, tulip time I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Blossoms. Tulip magnolia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "White tulip" by Jennifer Hayes Commentary: "White tulip in bloom top view." | "Red tulip" by Visnja Zeljeznjak Commentary: "Beautiful red tulip on a sunny day in may. ." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Finally, he had never succeeded in loving any woman as much as a tulip bulb, or any man as much as an Elzevir |
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| "Tulip" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.67% of the time. "Tulip" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.67% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.67% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 1.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tulip" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tulip | Last name | 130 | 59,549 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Netherlands | Tulip Computers N.V. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tulip": african tulip ♦ blue tulip ♦ candlestick tulip ♦ Cape tulip ♦ cottage tulip ♦ Darwin tulip ♦ desert mariposa tulip ♦ dwarf tulip ♦ lady tulip ♦ mariposa tulip ♦ mexican tulip poppy ♦ sagebrush mariposa tulip ♦ star tulip ♦ tulip bed ♦ tulip bulb ♦ tulip eczema ♦ tulip finger ♦ tulip gentian ♦ tulip orchid ♦ tulip poplar ♦ tulip tree ♦ yellow mariposa tulip. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tulip": Tulip-eared, tulip-red, tulip-shaped, Tulip-shell. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tulip | 5,865 | purple tulip | 31 |
tulip bulb | 2,303 | tulip poplar tree | 29 |
holland tulip | 952 | yellow tulip | 27 |
tulip tree | 490 | red tulip | 24 |
tulip picture | 160 | tulip wallpaper | 24 |
tulip bouquet | 92 | tulip on blue | 21 |
tulip care | 84 | tulip garden | 20 |
golden tulip hotel | 83 | tulip wedding bouquet | 19 |
golden tulip | 62 | tulip and rose | 18 |
white tulip | 62 | jerusalem tulip | 17 |
tulip flower | 55 | tiptoe through the tulip | 17 |
black tulip | 55 | ass consumption junction tulip | 16 |
tulip poplar | 49 | hotel tulip | 16 |
tulip festival | 48 | parrot tulip | 16 |
growing tulip | 41 | tulip painting | 16 |
pink tulip | 40 | bread and tulip | 15 |
tulip inn | 40 | tulip inn amsterdam | 15 |
tulip photo | 37 | french tulip | 14 |
planting tulip | 34 | clipart tulip | 14 |
tulip field | 32 | ass tulip | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tulip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | tulp. (various references) | |
Albanian | tulipan. (various references) | |
Arabic | الخزامي نبات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид сев.-ам. магнолия, лале. (various references) | |
Chinese | 郁金香, 鬱金香 . (various references) | |
Cornish | tulyfant. (various references) | |
Czech | tulipán. (various references) | |
Danish | tulipan. (various references) | |
Dutch | tulp. (various references) | |
Esperanto | tulipo. (various references) | |
Farsi | لاله(گ.ش.), گل لاله . (various references) | |
Finnish | tulppaani. (various references) | |
French | tulipe. (various references) | |
German | Tulpe. (various references) | |
Greek | τουλίπα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tulipán. (various references) | |
Irish | tiúilip. (various references) | |
Italian | tulipano. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | チューリング機械 (chalk, chock, choco, chocolate, choking, cutting sound, snipping sound, to cut, tune, Tunisia, Turing machine), チャン語 (Chinese language, tuba, tube, tuna, tuner, tuning, Turing, Turing machine, Turing's test, tutor, tutorial, Zurich). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | チューリップ , チュウリップ . (various references) | |
Manx | tulip, laayl. (various references) | |
Norwegian | tulipan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uliptay.(various references) | |
Polish | tulipan. (various references) | |
Portuguese | tulipa. (various references) | |
Romanian | lalea. (various references) | |
Romany | lale. (various references) | |
Russian | тюльпан. (various references) | |
Sepedi | teledimo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lala. (various references) | |
Spanish | tulipán. (various references) | |
Swedish | tulpan. (various references) | |
Turkish | lâle. (various references) | |
Turkmen | зigildem. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тюльпан. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Persian | 800-Modern | dulband. (various references) |
| Turkish | 1200-Modern | tlbent. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | tulipe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tulip": tulips, tulipwood, tulipwoods. (additional references) | |
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"Tulip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ntuli, talip, telep, teli, thulp, tlap, Tli, tlp, tlui, tufi, Tu'i, tu'ii, tuil, tuila, tulio, Tullah, tullie, tullip, tulo, Tulp, tuly, Tuplin, tuzi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tulip" (pronounced tuw"lup) |
| 4 | -uw" l u p | Julep. |
| 3 | -l u p | develop, dollop, envelop, fillip, gallop, polyp, redevelop, scallop, wallop. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: uplit. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: litu, puli. | |
-2 letters: lip, lit, pit, piu, pul, put, til, tip, tui, tup. | |
-3 letters: it, li, pi, ti, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: plutei, pulpit, tulips, uplift, uptilt. | |
+2 letters: culprit, nuptial, pitiful, plaudit, pulpits, slipout, stipule, unplait, unspilt, unsplit, upbuilt, uplifts, uplight, uptilts. | |
+3 letters: capitula, culprits, gulpiest, lilliput, lumpiest, multiped, multiple, multiply, nuptials, philtrum, platinum, plaudits, playsuit, plumiest, plutonic, populist, poultice, pugilist, pulpiest, pulpital, putridly, slipouts, spiteful, stipular, stipuled, stipules, stupidly, sulphite, troupial, tumpline, ultrahip, unplaits, unpliant, unpolite, unspoilt, uplifted, uplifter, uplights, uptilted. | |
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