NOUN | plant | Nelumbo, genus Nelumbo | sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae |
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Meaning | sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses / lotuses. | |
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Synonym | genus Nelumbo | |
Member of | Nelumbonaceae, subfamily Nelumbonaceae | In some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies |
Members | water chinquapin, American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea | water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds |
Broader | magnoliid dicot genus | genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms |
Spanish | genus nelumbo, nelumbo | |
Catalan | genus nelumbo, nelumbo, Nelumbo |
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