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nenuphar|ˈnɛnjuːfɑː(r)|
Also 6–8 -far, 6 -farre, 7 -fer (and erron. nune-, nemi-, nem-).
[a. med.L. nenuphar, -far (It. and Sp. nenufar, F. nénufar), ad. Arab.-Pers. nīnūfar, nīlūfar, Pers. also nīlūfal, -pal, ad. Skr. nīlôtpala blue lotus, f. nīl blue + utpala lotus, water-lily.]
1. A water-lily, esp. the common white or yellow species. In early use freq. in oil, syrup, water of nenuphar.
1533Elyot Cast. Helth (1534) 76 Syrope of violettes, nemipher, or the wine of sweet pomegranates. 1563T. Gale Antidotarie i. viii. 5 Among compoundes these are in vse, butter, oile of roses, Violettes, Nenuphar, Popye. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. v. i. vi. (1651) 397 To refrigerate the face, by washing it often with Rose, Violet, Nenuphar, Lettuce, Lovage waters and the like. 1612Peacham Gentl. Exerc. iii. 162 Of Flowers you haue Roses, Gilliflowers, Violets, Nenuphar, Lilly. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Syrup, Syrup of Nenuphar, or Water-Lilly. 1759tr. Adanson's Voy. Senegal in Pinkerton Voy. (1814) XVI. 631 The leaves of the nenufar, or water-lilly. 1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. vi. 98 On these green isles of the Mississippi,..the pistia and nenuphar display their yellow flowers. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. x. (1891) 250 The stream with..clustering nenuphars Sprinkling its mirrored blue like golden-chaliced stars! 1874A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 14 Here and there great lakes of nenuphar And lustrous lotos glimmered.
†b. petty nenuphar, applied by Turner (apparently) to the Marsh Marigold. Obs.
1548Turner Names Herbs (E.D.S.) 26 It groweth in watery middowes with a leafe like a water Rose, wherefore it may be called also Petie nunefar [sic].
2. Ent. (See quot.) rare—1.
1852T. W. Harris Insects New Eng. 66 A small beetle of the weevil tribe, called Rhynchænus Nenuphar, the Nenuphar or plum-weevil. |