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Meaning: An aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae Classified under: Nouns denoting plants Hypernyms ("water lily" is a kind of...): aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth) Meronyms (parts of "water lily"): lily pad (floating leaves of a water lily) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water lily"): Brasenia schreberi; water-shield; water-target (aquatic plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers; in lakes and slow-moving streams; suitable for aquariums) Cabomba caroliniana; fanwort; water-shield (common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers) American lotus; Nelumbo lutea; water chinquapin; yanquapin (water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds) Indian lotus; lotus; Nelumbo nucifera; sacred lotus (native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers) Nuphar lutea; yellow water lily (a water lily with yellow flowers) Nuphar sagittifolium; southern spatterdock (of flowing waters of the southeastern United States; may form obstructive mats in streams) cow lily; Nuphar advena; spatterdock; yellow pond lily (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water) blue lotus; Nymphaea stellata (blue lotus of India and southeastern Asia) blue lotus; Nymphaea caerulea (blue Egyptian lotus: held sacred by the Egyptians) Egyptian water lily; lotus; Nymphaea lotus; white lily; white lotus (white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians) European white lily; Nymphaea alba (a water lily with white flowers) fragrant water lily; Nymphaea odorata; pond lily; water nymph (a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions) Holonyms ("water lily" is a member of...): family Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeaceae; water-lily family (dicot aquatic plants) "What goes around comes around." (English proverb) "After dark all cats are leopards." (Native American proverb, Zuni) "The fisherman is the shark's friend." (Arabic proverb) "Some die; others bloom." (Corsican proverb) Useful links: What does hydrophytic plant mean? What does lily pad mean? water-shield definition What does Nelumbo nucifera mean? Nymphaea odorata definition
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