(n.) A genus of large and very beautiful trees of North America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.
Example Sentences:
(1) In tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) leaves, the proton NMR signal from chloroplast water is resolved from that of water in other leaf compartments.
(2) Serogroup II contained strains 23-6 and 27-31 isolated from flowers of the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera L.) growing in Maryland.
(3) Alcoholic extracts of the heartwood of Liriodendron tulipifera have demonstrated antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Candida albicans, and Aspergillus niger.
(4) Spiroplasmas were isolated and cultivated from nonsurface-sterilized petals and bracts excised from flowers of Liriodendron tulipifera L. (tulip tree) in Anne Arundel, Charles, and Prince George's Counties in Maryland, and East Lyme County, Connecticut.
(5) Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae of yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera L.) were examined by scanning electron microscopy.
Tulip
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the politics of Brexit calm down, I hope that after 100 days British political leadership is again able to focus on Nazanin’s and Gabriella’s situation and solve it before another 100 days pass.” Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s MP, Tulip Siddiq, is due to raise her case with the foreign office on Tuesday at a House of Commons session.
(2) People brought flowers, and large piles of roses, lilac, tulips and carnations lay by the blackened doors.
(3) At temperatures close to those of liquid helium, first derivative spectra corresponding to Center S-3 (gmax = 2.017) and a signal split around g = 2.00 (major features of peaks and troughs at g values of 2.045, 2.03, 1.985, 1.97 and 1.96) were observed in mung bean (Phaseolus aureus), Arum maculatum spadix, Sauromatum guttatum spadix and tulip bulb (Tulipa gesnerana) mitochondria.
(4) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel up the coast on São Conrado beach and hope to use the practice facilities at the nearby Urca Navy base.
(5) Art Cashin, a grizzled veteran of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, just compared Bitcoin to the infamous Dutch tulip bubble , one of the standard comparisons for any serious modern financial crisis.
(6) The FA can now begin planning in earnest and on Tuesday night received confirmation from Fifa that its first choice hotel for the team, the Royal Tulip in Rio, had been booked.
(7) The diagnosis of tulip fingers should be considered in any patient with a hand dermatitis who works in the flower industry, especially those who frequently handle bulbs.
(8) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel in the shadow of Sugar Loaf mountain on São Conrado beach.
(9) The synaptonemal complex is illustrated in electron micrographs from pollen mother cells (p.m.cs) of the following plants: Fritillaria lanceolata, Allium fistulosum, Tulbaghia violacea, Luzula purpurea, Phaedranassa viridiflora and the tulip cultivar Keiserkroon.
(10) There are carnations, tulips and a tub of spring crocuses.
(11) The three-dimensional structure of one of these epitopes, recognized by monoclonal antibody NC41, has previously been determined (W. R. Tulip, J. N. Varghese, R. G. Webster, G. M. Air, W. G. Laver, and P. M. Colman, Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
(12) The first consignment is ready to be dispatched by Tulip, the UK's biggest producer and the maker of Danepak bacon and Spam, following an agreement reached by UK agriculture minister Jim Paice during a trade mission to China.
(13) Sequences selected for the construction of degenerate primers included the coat protein gene sequence of tulip breaking virus from lily, which is reported in this paper.
(14) The purified tulip enzyme exhibits regiospecificity for O2 insertion at C-5 of the arachidonic acid molecule.
(15) Frowth inhibition, metabolic inhibition, and organism deformation tests failed to reveal a serologic relationship between spiroplasma strain 23-6 from tulip tree flowers and spiroplasma strain AS 576 from honey bee.
(16) The former president of the Dutch Central Bank, Nout Wellink, has told students at the University of Amsterdam that the hype around bitcoin is worse than his country's Tulip mania in the 17th century.
(17) In 1613, as people looked for a replacement for silver, Birch says, "we might have been saying 'the idea of tulip bulbs as an asset class looks pretty good, but this central bank nonsense will never catch on.'
(18) Unlike his well-known Iranian colleagues Shirin Ebadi, a peace Nobel laureate and Shadi Sadr, a winner of Human Rights Defenders Tulip awards 2009 who were forced to leave Iran, Mostafaei was still working inside Iran although he was arrested for a while last year.
(19) A self-expanding sheath with a tulip-shaped distal end was designed for performance of percutaneous embolectomy.
(20) Current developments in this field are transurethral implants (spiral, intraurethral catheter, Wall-Stent), the balloon dilatation, transurethral incision (TUIP), laser therapy (TULIP, ITK), ultrasound-induced aspiration of tissue and heat treatment (hyperthermia, thermotherapy).