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TULIP

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tulip" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tulip"):

dwarf tulip; Tulipa armena; Tulipa suaveolens (small early blooming tulip)

candlestick tulip; lady tulip; Tulipa clusiana (Eurasian tulip with small flowers blotched at the base)

Tulipa gesneriana (tall late blooming tulip)

cottage tulip (any of several long-stemmed tulips that flower in May; have egg-shaped variously colored flowers)

Darwin tulip (any of several very tall, late blooming tulips bearing large squarish flowers on sturdy stems)

Holonyms ("tulip" is a member of...):

genus Tulipa; Tulipa (Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs)

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