tuberose

• But it turns out that tuberose is a flower with claws.
• Squeals of recognition, tuberose-scented air-kisses, and manly handshakes welcomed them to the party, and Ellie was amused to see the interested look the dark-haired and willowy Alicia cast at the inspector. —  EQMM,August2008
• We were not a dressy lot in Rhodesia, and the clothes of these two cried out like a tuberose in a cottage window. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
• When Shelley compared the poetry of the Theocritean amourists to the perfume of the tuberose, and that of the earlier Greek poets to "a meadow-gale of June, which mingles the fragrance of all the flowers of the field," he supplied us with critical images which may not unfairly be used to point the distinction between Sodoma at Monte Oliveto and Luini at Saronno THE CASTELLO OF FERRARA Is it possible that the patron saints of cities should mould the temper of the people to their own likeness? —  New Italian sketches
• As when she smelt at a tuberose, and drank a dish of tea, but this only when she seemed voluntarily to attend to them 6. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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