LOTUS
\lˈə͡ʊtəs], \lˈəʊtəs], \l_ˈəʊ_t_ə_s]\
Definitions of LOTUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.
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A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
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An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.
By Oddity Software
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The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.
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A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
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An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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n. [Latin] A native plant of the order leguminous akin to trefoil and clover plants;— the Egyptian lotus an aquatic plant something like the water-lily;— the lotus of the lotus-eaters, a tree in Northern Africa, the fruit of which was fabled to Letus. make strangers who ate of it forget their native country;— an ornament in the form of the Egyptian water-lily
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