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Nymphaea

noun
1.
The type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae; any of a variety of water lilies.  Synonym: genus Nymphaea.



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Nymphaea alba
Nymphaea caerulea
Nymphaea lotus
Nymphaea odorata
Nymphaea stellata
Nymphaeaceae
family Nymphaeaceae


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... Sepals. Caltha Ditto Ditto. Aconitum Ditto. Delphinium Ditto Sepals, carpels, &c. Anemone! Ditto Involucre? Nymphaeaceae Nymphaea! Fruit? Nymphaea Flower Petal. Cruciferae *Brassica! Leaf-bud Flower-bud Sepals and petals. Brassica! Ditto Stamens. Brassica! Ditto Ditto Pistil. Cardamine! Ditto Sepals. Matthiola! Ditto Sepals and petals. Cheiranthus! Ditto Sepals. ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... Aponogeton, three species of Potamogeton, two of Naias, Chara and Zannichellia (the two latter indifferently, and often together, used in the refinement of sugar). In a large tank hard by, wholly fed by rain water, I observed only the Villarsia Indica, no Aponogeton, Nymphaea, or Dammonium, nor did these occur in any of the other tanks I examined, which were otherwise well peopled with plants. This may not be owing to the quality of the water so much as to its varying ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker


Words linked to "Nymphaea" :   Nymphaea odorata, fragrant water lily, pond lily, white lily, Egyptian water lily, white lotus, water nymph, European white lily, water-lily family, lotus, magnoliid dicot genus


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