WATER LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water lily mean? 

• WATER LILY (noun)
  The noun WATER LILY has 1 sense:

1. an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae

  Familiarity information: WATER LILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER LILY (noun)

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)