LOTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lotus mean? 

• LOTUS (noun)
  The noun LOTUS has 3 senses:

1. native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers

2. annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs

3. white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians

  Familiarity information: LOTUS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOTUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Indian lotus; lotus; Nelumbo nucifera; sacred lotus

Hypernyms ("lotus" is a kind of...):

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lotus; Lotus

Hypernyms ("Lotus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lotus"):

babies' slippers; bacon and eggs; bird's foot clover; bird's foot trefoil; Lotus corniculatus (European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America)

Holonyms ("Lotus" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

White Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Egyptian water lily; lotus; Nymphaea lotus; white lily; white lotus

Hypernyms ("lotus" is a kind of...):

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

Holonyms ("lotus" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

Oh yes! they, like the lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Goin' to the Lotus Club dance to-night?" Jim demanded.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Inspired by the water-repellent lotus leaf, the new surface works through a combination of nano-scale surface engineering and chemistry.

(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window, and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes, representing any scene that happened momentarily to shape itself in the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of imagination: a glimpse of sea between two rocks; the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad's head, crowned with lotus- flowers, rising out of them; an elf sitting in a hedge-sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn-bloom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The girls of the Lotus Club wondered what had become of him and worried Jim with questions, and some of the fellows who put on the glove at Riley's were glad that Martin came no more.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)