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Water lily  n.  (Bot.) A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea. Note: The name is extended to various plants of other related genera, as Nuphar, Euryale, Nelumbo, and Victoria. See Euryale, Lotus, and Victoria, 1.





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"Water lily" Quotes from Famous Books



... the high-tilled and fertile cornfield you come upon some sudden hollow, tangled with brake and bush, which hedge in some small pool where float the brilliant cups and smooth leaves of the water lily, and whence, on your approach, up springs the blue-winged teal or gorgeous wood-duck. Then the long sweeping woodlands, embracing in themselves every variety of ground, deep marshy swamp, and fertile level thick-set with giant timber, and sandy barrens with their scrubby ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)


Words linked to "Water lily" :   Nymphaea caerulea, white lotus, southern spatterdock, Nymphaea alba, yanquapin, water-lily family, white lily, Indian lotus, yellow pond lily, Nelumbo lutea, Nelumbo nucifera, spatterdock, sacred lotus, Cabomba caroliniana, Egyptian water lily, family Nymphaeaceae, American lotus, lotus, Brasenia schreberi, fragrant water lily, water-target, Nuphar sagittifolium, hydrophyte, Nuphar advena, Nymphaeaceae, aquatic plant, water-shield, cow lily, European white lily, hydrophytic plant, lily pad, Nymphaea lotus, water nymph, water plant, pond lily, Nymphaea odorata


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