Lotus

['ləʊtəs] or ['lotəs]

Definition

(noun.) white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians.

(noun.) native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers.

(noun.) annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs.

Typed by Emile--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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 Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.

(n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.

(n.) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.

(n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.

(n.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.

Checker: Vernon

Definition

n. the water-lily of Egypt: a tree in North Africa whose fruit made strangers forget their home: a genus of leguminous plants—also Lote Lō′tos.—ns.pl. Lotō′phagi Lō′tus-eat′ers a people who ate the fruit of the lotus among whom Ulysses lived for a time.—ns. Lō′tus-eat′er an eater of the lotus: one given up to sloth; Lō′tus-land the country of the lotus-eaters.

Typist: Wanda