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Cape tulip

noun

spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa

• Syn: ↑Haemanthus coccineus

• Hypernyms: ↑blood lily

• Member Holonyms: ↑Haemanthus, ↑genus Haemanthus

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized C

Etymology: from Cape of Good Hope

1. : blood lily

2. : a plant of the genus Homeria

Useful english dictionary. 2012.