Definition of "nelumbium" []

• Same as Nelumbo. (noun)
• In decorative art, the lotus-flower represented conventionally, especially when supporting the figure of a divine personage. See lotus. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They might draw from the waters, which cover a very small part of the fertile valley, fish enough to support, with the nelumbium nuts, nearly the whole of the present population; but then they are lotus-eaters, and as such improvident and indolent by all rules of poetry and legend."
• "The nelumbium, or so-called Egyptian lotus, should not be transplanted till growth begins to show in the roots in the spring."
• "This lake had evidently been in former times the course of the river: its surface was much covered with aquatic plants, amongst which were nelumbium luteum and hydropeltis purpurea: on the broad leaves of the former a great number of water snakes were basking, which on my approach darted into the water."