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- noun Plural form of
tulip .
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Examples
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This enormous celebration of tulips is taking place May 2 -19.
Archive 2008-05-01 The Nag 2008
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When I was a kid, we'd all choose tulips from the neighbour's garden to take the the local flower show, for the kids 'tulip judging.
Archive 2008-05-01 The Nag 2008
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There was a veritable frenzy of trading in Dutch tulips, when they were in a bubble.
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There was a veritable frenzy of trading in Dutch tulips, when they were in a bubble.
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That P. Allen Smith container filled with tulips is hard to beat — I can’t resist!
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No frost here, but the newly dug tropicals were being trucked to the greenhouses, the annuals had gone and the gardener was sticking in tulips.
In Washington, a frost on election day Adrian Higgins 2010
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The tulips are a welcome phase of the garden here, it is true.
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The credit crunch has made such leverage as quaint as the market in Dutch tulips.
Wall Street: Profiles in Panic Shnayerson, Michael 2009
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The tulips are the pixy babies 'cradles, it seems.
The Golden Road 1908
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In almost every one you find daisies, and mint, and lilac bushes, and rows of plain English tulips.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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