blue tulip
- noun
- US
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tulipán azul
- The blue tulip blooms early in spring, adding a pop of color to the garden.
Examples
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She was delighted to find a rare blue tulip during her hike in Siberia.
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Many botanical gardens feature the blue tulip due to its vibrant flowers.
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The blue tulip is blooming beautifully in my garden.
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Look at that blue tulip!
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Many botanical gardens feature the blue tulip due to its vibrant flowers.
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She was delighted to find a rare blue tulip during her hike in Siberia.
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The blue tulip blooms early in spring, adding a pop of color to the garden.
Synonyms
A short hairy plant from North America and Siberia with blue-violet spring flowers
A short hairy plant that comes back each year with blue-violet spring flowers
A short, hairy plant from North America that lives more than one year and has blue-violet spring flowers
A short hairy plant with blue-violet or lilac flowers in early spring
A short hairy plant with blue-violet or lilac flowers that blooms in early spring
A short, hairy plant that comes back every year and has blue-violet or lilac flowers in early spring
A short hairy plant with blue-violet or lilac flowers in early spring
A small wild plant with purple flowers in early spring
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a simple adjective + noun composition where the meaning ('a tulip that is blue') is directly and transparently derived from 'blue' (color) + 'tulip' (flower). Color + noun constructions are highly regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Blue tulip is a name that comes from how the flower looks: a tulip with unusual blue or lilac petals that opens in early spring. Because true blue tulips are uncommon, the name came to mean this short, hairy spring plant with bright blue-violet flowers.
