Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The water-lily.
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Examples
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Great heaps of sea-weed clung to its base, and storm-birds - born of the wind one might suppose, as sea-weed of the water-rose and fell about it, like the waves they skimmed.
A Christmas Carol 1843
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A striking feature in the garden is this beautiful water-rose, or lotus-flower (nymphaea nelumbo), which was originally a native of
A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827
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