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tulip

US/ˈtulɪp/
nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,217 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: tulips

A tulip is a spring flower shaped like a cup on a bare stem. A bed of tulips, red tulips, plant tulip bulbs.

The Netherlands grows most of the world's bulbs, and in the 1630s the trade there produced the first recorded speculative bubble: single tulip bulbs changed hands for the price of a house before the market collapsed. The bulbs go in during autumn.

Dina L · CC0

Definitions of tulip

  1. 1nountulipA spring flower shaped like a cup on a bare stem.B2

    “Red and yellow tulips filled the park in April.”

tulip is a flower.

Where it comes from

From Turkish through French, ultimately from a Persian word for a turban, which the flower's shape suggested.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *bʰendʰ-

  2. fa-cls

    دلبند — turban

  3. ota

    دلبند — cheesecloth

  4. Middle French

    tulipe

  5. English, today

    tulip

From Middle French tulipe, from earlier tulipan, from ota دلبند (“cheesecloth”), from fa-cls دلبند (“turban”). a doublet of turban.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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tulip in the wild

  • The tulip tree is the state tree of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

    Liriodendron tulipifera

  • The Canadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes; Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival held annually each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

    Canadian Tulip Festival

  • The festival claims to be the world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips, with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually.

    Canadian Tulip Festival

  • The name of the period derives from the tulip craze among the Ottoman court society.

    Tulip Period

  • During this period the elite and high-class society of the Ottoman period had established an immense fondness for the tulip, which were utilized in various occasions.

    Tulip Period

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.