tulip gentian
- noun
- US
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gentiana tulipán
- The tulip gentian brightens the summer prairie with its vivid blue blooms.
Examples
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Wildlife photographers love capturing the striking colors of the tulip gentian in its natural habitat.
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After a rainy spring, the fields were blanketed with blooming tulip gentians.
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Look at that stunning tulip gentian over there!
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The tulip gentian blooms beautifully in spring.
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After a rainy spring, the fields were blanketed with blooming tulip gentians.
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The tulip gentian brightens the summer prairie with its vivid blue blooms.
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Wildlife photographers love capturing the striking colors of the tulip gentian in its natural habitat.
Synonyms
A North American wildflower with upright blue bell-shaped flowers
A wildflower that grows in moist grasslands with large bell-shaped blue or purple flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositional: 'tulip' + 'gentian' denotes a kind of gentian that has tulip-like flowers. Both constituents are concrete, familiar plant terms and noun-noun species names are a common, cross-linguistic naming pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the two words can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Tulip gentian gets its name from how the flower looks: the bright blue, upright, bell-shaped bloom looks like a small tulip, and gentian shows it is part of a group of blue wildflowers, so the name helps you picture the plant.
