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AMERICAN LOTUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds
Synonyms:
American lotus; Nelumbo lutea; water chinquapin; yanquapin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("American lotus" is a kind of...):
water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)
Meronyms (parts of "American lotus"):
water chinquapin (edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin)
Holonyms ("American lotus" is a member of...):
genus Nelumbo; Nelumbo (sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses)