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Tulip tree   /tˈuləp tri/   Listen
noun
Tulip  n.  (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 (Liriodendron tulipifera) of the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae) bearing tuliplike flowers. See Liriodendron.
(b)
A West Indian malvaceous tree (Paritium tiliaceum syn. Hibiscus tiliaceum).





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"Tulip tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... field stood a large tulip tree, apparently of a century's growth, and one of the most gigantic. It looked like the father of the surrounding forest. A single tree of huge dimensions, standing all ...
— The New McGuffey Fourth Reader • William H. McGuffey
... east of the college buildings stands the Tulip Tree which sheltered the first settlers of Annapolis in 1649, and may have hidden away in the memory-cells of its stanch old heart reminiscences of a time when a bluff old Latin sailor, with more ambition in his soul than geography in his head, unwittingly blundered onto a New World. Whatever ...
— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett
... (Continued) The Hickories, Walnut, and Butternut Tulip Tree, Sweet Gum, Linden, Magnolia, Locust, Catalpa, Dogwood, Mulberry, and ...
— Studies of Trees • Jacob Joshua Levison


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