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n. An aquatic plant (Nelumbo nucifera) native to southern Asia and Australia, having large leaves, fragrant, pinkish flowers, a broad, rounded, perforated seedpod, and fleshy rhizomes.

n. The edible seed, leaf, or rhizome of this plant.

n. Any of several similar or related plants, such as the water lilies Nymphaea caerula or N. lotus.

n. A representation of any of various lotuses or similar plants in Egyptian or classical sculpture, architecture, or art.

n. Any of several leguminous plants of the genus Lotus.

n. Greek Mythology A small Mediterranean tree or shrub whose fruit was eaten by the lotus-eaters.

n. Greek Mythology The fruit of this plant.

n. A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.

n. A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India.

n. A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria.

n. A number of other plants bearing "lotus" in their scientific or common names.

n. An architectural motif of ancient Egyptian temples.

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n. A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphæa Lotus and Nymphæa cærulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.

n. The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.

n. The lote, or nettle tree. See lote.

n. A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.

n. An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.

n. One of a number of different plants famous in mythology and tradition, or in modern times associated with traditions.

n. [capitalized] [NL. (Tournefort, 1700).] A genus of leguminous plants, type of the tribe Loteæ, distinguished by a two-valved pod and the pointed keel of the corolla.

n. In architecture, an ornament in the form of the Egyptian water-lily, Castalia mystica, frequently figured in the art of ancient nations, notably on certain types of the capitals of Egyptian columns.

n. Nelumbo Nelumbo, a native of the warmer parts of Asia and of Australia, apparently not of Egypt, though long cultivated there and often called Egyptian lotus. It is a superb plant with large, showy pink or sometimes white flowers. It is very common in cultivation, and figures extensively in Indian mythology.

n. white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians

n. native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers

n. annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs

"Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists."

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