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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 Nymphaeliga Lotus and Nymphaeliga caeligrulea the respectively white flowered and blue flowered lotus of modern Egypt which with Nelumbium speciosum are figured on its ancient monuments...
Lotus eater
One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus and as a consequence gave himself up to indolence and daydreams one of the Lotophagi...
Jujube
The sweet and edible drupes fruits of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees of the genus Zizyphus especially the Zizyphus jujuba Zizyphus vulgaris Zizyphus mucronata and Zizyphus Lotus The last named is thought to have furnished the lotus of the ancient Libyan Lotophagi or lotus eaters...
VerbarLotophagi
A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings They subsisted on the lotus See Lotus b and Lotus eater...
VerbarSadr
A plant of the genus Ziziphus Z lotus so called by the Arabs of Barbary who use its berries for food See Lotus b...
Crowtoe
The Lotus corniculatus...
Lotos
See Lotus...
VerbarNabk
The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus a tree of Northern Africa and Southwestern Europe...
VerbarNelumbo
A genus of great water lilies The North American species is Nelumbo lutea the Asiatic is the sacred lotus Nelumbo speciosa...
VerbarNymphaeliga
A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers white blue pink or yellow often fragrant including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus...
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