CAPE TULIP
Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape tulip mean? • CAPE TULIP (noun)
The noun CAPE TULIP has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CAPE TULIP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CAPE TULIP (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cape tulip; Haemanthus coccineus
Hypernyms ("Cape tulip" is a kind of...):
blood lily (any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibia)
Holonyms ("Cape tulip" is a member of...):
genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus (genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies)
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