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/wˈɔtər lˈɪli/ Listen

Water lily

noun

An aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae.

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"Water lily" Quotes from Famous Books

... an instance of the uniformity which prevailed in symbolism in the New World. The Aztecs adored the goddess of water under the figure of a frog carved from a single emerald; or of human form, but holding in her hand the leaf of a water lily ornamented with frogs. (Brasseur, Hist. du ...

— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

... of the forest; And the forest life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in autumn, Like a yellow water lily. ...

— Story Hour Readers Book Three • Ida Coe and Alice J. Christie

... ring of slightly dulled silver—the design is of a water lily, fragile and delicate. In the heart of it lies, like a dewdrop, a pale-green jewel called peridot. Here is the soft, rich blue of lapis lazuli—here the keener azure of turquoise matrix. Here is a Mexican opal, full of ...

— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin

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