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Definition of Blue tulip
1. Noun. Short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia.
Generic synonyms: Pasque Flower, Pasqueflower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Tulip
Literary usage of Blue tulip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fairy gifts; or, A wallet of wonders by Kathleen Knox (1875)
"This was easily done, the blue tulip being decidedly the most conspicuous object
in the landscape, and she picked the four - leaved shamrock from the centre ..."
2. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"... 762 BLUE-EYED GRASS 174 BLUE FLAG 176 BLUE FLAX 534 BLUE GRAMA 65 BLUE-GRASS
72 BLUE-JOINT 95 BLUE-LIPS 762 BLUE-STEM 33, 95 blue tulip 288 BLUE WILLOW ..."
3. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture \ by Peter Henderson (1910)
"Is a small bulb from the Rio Grande, producing two to four beautiful blue
tulip-shaped flowers on a slender stalk, about one and a half feet high. ..."
4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"Florists have never yet obtained a blue tulip, rose, or dahlia. The geranium
varies throughout the cyanic series, and a yellow geranium is unknown. ..."
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