tulip

Any of several bulbous plants of the genus Tulipa of the lily family, native chiefly to Asia and widely cultivated for their showy, variously colored, cup-shaped flowers.

The flower of any of these plants.

A plant of the genus Tulipa, of which several species are well-known garden bulbs with highly colored bell-shaped flowers, blooming in spring.

In ordnance, a bell-shaped outward swell of the muzzle of a gun, as a rule abandoned in modern ordnance.

A liliaceous plant, Bæometra columellaris (Tulipa Breyniana) of the Cape of Good Hope.