lotus has definitions from the fields of botany,biology
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[ noun ] (botany) native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers

Used in print

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

Repeating it like a student telling himself that the jewel is in the lotus he sank into nirvana .

Related terms

water_lily

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[ noun ] (biology,botany) annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs

Synonyms

genus_Lotus

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[ noun ] (botany) white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians

Related terms

water_lily Nymphaea

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