tulip-like

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1. alternativeAlternative form of tuliplike.

   We are not alone, walking with blistered feet in the desert: We meet many a tulip-like beauty, their heads covered with dust.

   2001, Darshan Singh, translated by Barry Lerner and Harbans Singh Bedi, Love’s Last Madness: Poems on a Spiritual Path, Hohm Press, →ISBN, page 107

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   It is remarkably smooth, and not less admired for its fiddle-shaped leaves, than its tulip-like flowers, which are formed at the ends of the branches.

   1829, James King, A Poem on Leigh Park, the Seat of Sir George Thos. Staunton, Bart., London: […] Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. […], page 52

   The autumn drifted away through all its seasons. The golden corn-harvest, the walks through the stubble-fields, and rambles into hazel-copses in search of nuts; the stripping of the apple-orchards of their ruddy fruit, amid the joyous cries and shouts of watching children; and the gorgeous tulip-like colouring of the later time had now come on with the shortening days.

   1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “The Storm Bursts”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 129