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Tolerate the Italian inside raising plant (5)

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tulip

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(Other definitions for tulip that I've seen before include "Bulb producing a single showy flower" , "Plant, it's name shares an origin with turban" , "(Dutch) bloom" , "Liliaceous bulb" , "Dutch export" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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