Definition of "waterlilies" [waterlilies]

• Plural form of waterlily. (noun)

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• "The work he seemed to reject, in 1970, was not a single-minded oeuvre, but spanned a remarkable range, from delicate and almost serene studies in red crosshatching that look a bit like a sunset imposed on Monet's waterlilies, to thick, roughly painted and dark forms in the early to mid-1960s that suggest not so much abstraction as a futile effort to paint over and blot out suppressed figurative ideas."
• "Hundreds of Sinhalese sit in a two-story room in meditative positions, softly chanting and offering up mountains of pink lotuses, purple waterlilies, and white jasmines in front of the gilded casket that holds the tooth."
• "A powerful waterfall appeared to be part of a dry streambed that is the dominant theme running through the garden, but this waterfall is a component of a separate, self-contained, re-circulating body of water containing Japanese koi fish and tropical waterlilies."