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# tulip

«tulip» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bright spring flower shaped like a cup, growing from a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tulip, tulips)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tulip is a bright spring flower shaped like a cup, growing from a bulb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#m1)

2) Tulips come in many colours: red, yellow, pink, white, purple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a thing counted, planted, bought or put in vases; «the rest are yellow» means subtract. Science: tulips grow from bulbs planted in autumn and flower in spring. Everyday: the Netherlands is famous for tulip fields.

### examples

- She planted 24 tulips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#x1)
- Each vase holds 6 tulips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#x2)
- 8 tulips are red and the rest are yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#x3)
- A tulip costs 2 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#x4)
- Plant tulip bulbs in autumn for flowers in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#x5)
- Fields of tulips cover the land in the Netherlands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#x6)
- He gave his mum a bunch of pink tulips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#x7)
- The girl carried the tulips away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/#x8)

### note

Countable: a tulip, tulips. The thing counted. Trap: «the rest are yellow» means subtract the red from the total.

### In the corpora

- [Feather grass, wild tulips and lime trees each have clever tricks to live here.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tulip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tulip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.