HyperDic: genus_nelumbo

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Nelumbo:
NOUNplantgenus Nelumbo, Nelumbosometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae
English > genus Nelumbo: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningsometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses / lotuses.
SynonymNelumbo
Member ofNelumbonaceae, subfamily NelumbonaceaeIn some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies
Memberswater chinquapin, American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo luteawater lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds
Broadermagnoliid dicot genusgenus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
Spanishgenus nelumbo, nelumbo
Catalangenus nelumbo, nelumbo, Nelumbo

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