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Water lily   /wˈɔtər lˈɪli/   Listen
Water lily

noun
1.
An aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae.



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"Water lily" Quotes from Famous Books



... on our shores? Where among us shall we find the numberless drawbacks which, in less favoured countries, the labourer has to contend with? They have no place in our beautiful group, which rests like a water lily on the swelling bosom of the Pacific. The heaven is tranquil above our heads, and the sun keeps his jealous eye upon us every day, while his rays are so tempered that they never wither prematurely what they have warmed into life." {296} The kindness of my hosts ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird
... Mrs. Coleridge wrote to Mr. Kenyon to know whether Mr. Browning had any authority for "blue lilies." Mr. Browning answered, "Lilies are of all colors in Palestine—one sort is particularized as white with a dark blue spot and streak—the water lily, lotus, which I think I meant, is blue altogether." (Letters of R. B. and E. ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning


Words linked to "Water lily" :   Indian lotus, American lotus, blue lotus, Nymphaea lotus, Nymphaea odorata, white lotus, yanquapin, Nymphaea caerulea, fanwort, family Nymphaeaceae, water-target, yellow pond lily, Nuphar lutea, Egyptian water lily, cow lily, Nymphaea stellata, lotus, lily pad, spatterdock, Nuphar advena, water-shield, water plant, Nymphaea alba, pond lily, southern spatterdock, Nuphar sagittifolium, hydrophytic plant, Brasenia schreberi, Nymphaeaceae, water chinquapin, European white lily, Nelumbo nucifera, sacred lotus, water nymph, white lily, hydrophyte, aquatic plant, Nelumbo lutea, Cabomba caroliniana, water-lily family


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