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FRAGRANT WATER LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fragrant water lily mean? 

FRAGRANT WATER LILY (noun)
  The noun FRAGRANT WATER LILY has 1 sense:

1. a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regionsplay

  Familiarity information: FRAGRANT WATER LILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRAGRANT WATER LILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fragrant water lily; Nymphaea odorata; pond lily; water nymph

Hypernyms ("fragrant water lily" is a kind of...):

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

Holonyms ("fragrant water lily" is a member of...):

genus Nymphaea; Nymphaea (the type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae; any of a variety of water lilies)


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