Definition of "nelumbo" [‖Ne•lum•bo]

• Any of the genus Nelumbo of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers resembling water lilies. (noun)

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• "The dromos, or avenue of sphinxes, was carpeted with palm and nelumbo leaves, and copper censers as large as caldrons had been set at equidistance from one another, and an unceasing reek of aromatics drifted up from them throughout the day."
• "The first (_Nelumbieæ_) has but a single species, the yellow lotus or nelumbo (_Nelumbo lutea_), common in the waters of the west and southwest, but rare eastward (Fig.  101, _F_)."
• "A striking feature in the garden is this beautiful water-rose, or lotus-flower (nymphaea nelumbo), which was originally a native of"