Turk’s cap

[TURK¹.]

  † 1.  Early name for the tulip. Obs.

1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, I. lxxvii. § 14. 120. It is called … after the Turkish name Tulipa, or it may be called Dalmatian Cap, or the Turkes Cap.

1629.  Parkinson, Paradisus, Table 12. The Turkes Cap, that is, the Tulipa.

  2.  The Martagon lily; also Turk’s-cap lily. American Turk’s-cap lily, Lilium superbum.

1672.  Josselyn, New Eng. Rarities, 54. Turning up their Leaves like the Martigon, or Turks Cap.

1778.  Milne, Bot. Dict. (ed. 2), 130. Martagon lilly … having its petals rowled or turned backwards in form of a Turkish turbant; from which … the flower is generally known by the name of Turk’s-cap.

1791.  Gentl. Mag., July, 619/1. The Martagon or Turk’s-cap Lily.

1884.  Miller, Plant-n., Lilium superbum, Great American Turk’s-Cap Lily, Swamp Lily.

1899.  Warner, Capt. Locusts, 5. A couple of blossoms of the crimson Turk’s-cap lily.

1906.  Earl Selborne, Pers. & Pol. Mem., II. xxxii. 268. A cream-coloured Turk’s-cap and several kinds of white lilies.

  3.  The Melon-thistle, Cactus Melocactus: see quot. 1866; also Turk’s-cap Cactus, Turk’s head.

1829.  Loudon, Encycl. Plants (1836), 410. C[actus] melocactus, the great melon thistle or Turk’s cap.

1866.  Treas. Bot., 733/2. Melocactus communis, the Turk’s-cap Cactus, so called from the flowering portion on the top of the plant being of a cylindrical form and red colour like a fez cap.

  4.  A local name for the common aconite (Aconitum Napellus).

1854.  Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Turk’s cap. Ibid., 129. Pope’s-Ode, the garden Monk’s-hood or Turk’s-cap. Aconitum napellus.

  5.  A variety of the great pumpkin, Cucurbita maxima.

1891.  in Cent. Dict.

  6.  Cookery. A form of mold. Cf. TURBAN sb. 1 g.

1859.  F. S. Cooper, Ironmongers’ Catal., 178. Jelly and Cake Moulds…. Turk’s Cap.