English > water lily: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | An aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae. |
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| Member of | Nymphaeaceae, family Nymphaeaceae, water-lily family | dicot aquatic plants |
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| Parts | lily pad | floating leaves of a water lily |
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| Narrower | European white lily, Nymphaea alba | A water lily with white flowers |
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| blue lotus, Nymphaea caerulea | blue Egyptian lotus |
| blue lotus, Nymphaea stellata | blue lotus of India and southeastern Asia |
| lotus, white lotus, Egyptian water lily, white lily, Nymphaea lotus | white Egyptian lotus |
| lotus, Indian lotus, sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera | Native to eastern Asia |
| southern spatterdock, Nuphar sagittifolium | Of flowing waters of the southeastern United States |
| spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena | Common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers |
| water-shield, fanwort, Cabomba caroliniana | Common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers |
| water-shield, Brasenia schreberi, water-target | aquatic plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers |
| water chinquapin, American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea | water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds |
| water nymph, fragrant water lily, pond lily, Nymphaea odorata | A water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water |
| yellow water lily, Nuphar lutea | A water lily with yellow flowers |
| Broader | aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant | A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth |
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| Spanish | golfán, nenúfar, ninfea |
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| Catalan | nenúfar, nimfea |
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