NELUMBO
Dictionary entry overview: What does Nelumbo mean? • NELUMBO (noun)
The noun NELUMBO has 1 sense:
1. sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses
Familiarity information: NELUMBO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NELUMBO (noun)
Meaning:
Sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Nelumbo; Nelumbo
Hypernyms ("Nelumbo" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Nelumbo"):
American lotus; Nelumbo lutea; water chinquapin; yanquapin (water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds)
Holonyms ("Nelumbo" is a member of...):
Nelumbonaceae; subfamily Nelumbonaceae (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo)
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