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Then they discovered a way to keep the protein locked in a tulip-like prefusion shape.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2021
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
On the flank of some flaming sand-dune we would find the tulip-like blooms of the Gethyllis flourishing in leafless splendour.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
Tulipomā′nia, a craze for the cultivation of tulips; Tū′lip-tree, a large North American tree, having tulip-like flowers; Tū′lip-wood, the soft, fine, straight-grained wood of the tulip-tree.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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 Rudyard Kipling
