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 →

2) Tulips come in many colours: red, yellow, pink, white, purple. tree →

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 →
• Each vase holds 6 tulips. tree →
• 8 tulips are red and the rest are yellow. tree →
• A tulip costs 2 dollars. tree →
• Plant tulip bulbs in autumn for flowers in spring. tree →
• Fields of tulips cover the land in the Netherlands. tree →
• He gave his mum a bunch of pink tulips. tree →
• The girl carried the tulips away. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tulip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.