Usually means: Aquatic plant with distinctive flowers.
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  1. lotus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Lotus, lotus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lotus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lotus: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Lotus, lotus: Wordnik
  7. lotus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lotus: Wiktionary
  9. lotus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lotus (lotos): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. lotus: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Lotus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lotus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. Lotus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
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noun:  A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.
noun:  A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India.
noun:  A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria.
noun:  A number of other plants bearing lotus in their scientific or common names (see Derived terms below).
noun:  Diospyros lotus, date plum or Caucasian persimmon.
noun:  Lotus, a terrestrial genus with small flowers that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches.
noun:  Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit.
noun:  An architectural motif of ancient Egyptian temples.
noun:  A British manufacturer of cars.
noun:  A few places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. Former names: Marshall and Uniontown.
noun:  An unincorporated community and former village on Merritt Island, Brevard County, Florida.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Union County, Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bullitt County, Kentucky.
noun:  Short for lotus position. [A cross-legged sitting position in which the feet are resting on the thigh of the opposite leg; a meditative position in Hinduism and Buddhism, also used in yoga and sexual intercourse.]

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