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LOTUS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lotus mean?

• LOTUS (noun)
The noun LOTUS has 3 senses:

1. native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers
2. annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs
3. white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians

Familiarity information: LOTUS used as a noun is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• LOTUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sacred lotus; Nelumbo nucifera; lotus; Indian lotus

Hypernyms ("lotus" is a kind of...):

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lotus; Lotus

Hypernyms ("Lotus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lotus"):

babies' slippers; bacon and eggs; bird's foot clover; bird's foot trefoil; Lotus corniculatus (European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America)

Holonyms ("Lotus" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Egyptian water lily; Nymphaea lotus; white lotus; white lily; lotus

Hypernyms ("lotus" is a kind of...):

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

Holonyms ("lotus" is a member of...):

genus Nymphaea; Nymphaea (the type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae; any of a variety of water lilies)

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