tulip-like
- a word derived from tulip.
Example Sentences
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As the protein prepares to fuse to a cell, it contorts from a tulip-like shape into something more akin to a javelin.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2021
Then they discovered a way to keep the protein locked in a tulip-like prefusion shape.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2021
In shape—well, she seemed to be a great flower, an unopened tulip-like blossom five feet or so tall.
From Where the World is Quiet by Kuttner, Henry
At morning, when the cavalcade tramps along in the rear of the tulip-like dragoman, She says: 'I am here——just beyond that ridge of pink sand that you are admiring.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
Their white spikes of drooping tulip-like flowers are almost the only inflorescences to be seen outside gardens at this season of the year.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas
