Definition of Cape tulip

1. Noun. Spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa.

Exact synonyms: Haemanthus Coccineus
Group relationships: Genus Haemanthus, Haemanthus
Generic synonyms: Blood Lily

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cape Tulip

Cape York Peninsula
Cape buffalo
Cape buffalos
Cape dagga
Cape hunting dog
Cape kafferboom
Cape lion
Cape lions
Cape lobster
Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope Province
Cape periwinkle
Cape primrose
Cape triangle
Cape triangles
Cape tulip (current term)
Capek
Capella
Capet
Capetian
Capetian dynasty
Capeverdean
Capeverdean Crioulo
Capgras
Capgras' phenomenon
Capgras' syndrome
Capgras delusion
Capillaria aerophila
Capillaria bovis
Capillaria brevipes

Literary usage of Cape tulip

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"Cape Town is 5979 miles from Southampton ; transit about 16 days. In 1918 the white population of Cape Town was estimated at 99693. Cape tulip. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1893)
"... as Cape tulip, and as a plant well known to almost every child in the Colony (Cape of Good Hope). REASONS FOR INVESTIGATION. Apart altogether from the ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1851)
"I introduce this plant (which is known to almost every child in the colony as the Cape tulip), not for its therapeutical uses, but for its obnoxiousness. ..."

4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1852)
"I introduce this plant (which is known to almost every child in the colony as the Cape tulip) not for its therapeutical use. but for its obnoxiousness. ..."

5. Dictionary of dates, and universal reference. [With] by Joseph Timothy Haydn (1868)
"Tooth-ache tree, fruin Carolina, before . . . . Trumpet-flower, N. America Trumpet-flower, Cape . Tulip, Vienna . . . . Verbena, H. America Victoria ..."

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