Tulip vs Tulipist - What's the difference?
tulip | tulipist |
A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa .
* 1876 — " No. CCCXL, April 1876, Vol. LII.
* , chapter=10
, title= The flower of this plant.
One who is especially devoted to the cultivation of tulips.
As an acronym tulip
is (religion).As a noun tulipist is
one who is especially devoted to the cultivation of tulips.tulip
English
Noun
(en noun)- "The sturdy burghers of Holland took the tulip mania so badly that single bulbs that could not flower till another year would sell for more than $2000 apiece."
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
See also
* (wikipedia) * (Tulipa) * (Tulipa)Anagrams
* ---- ==Volapük==Declension
(vo-decl-noun)tulipist
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sir T. Browne.