| 单词 | nelumbo | 
| 释义 | Nelumbon. Botany.   A genus (family  Nelumbonaceae) comprising two species of aquatic plant with solitary flowers, peltate leaves, and thick, edible rhizomes, the red-flowered sacred lotus of Asia,  Nelumbo nucifera, and the yellow-flowered American lotus,  N. lutea; (also  nelumbo) a plant of this genus, esp. a sacred lotus.Valid publication of the genus name: M. Adanson  Familles des Plantes (1763) I. 73. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > 			[noun]		 > nelumbo or plant of the Nymphaceae lotus flower1710 Nelumbo1753 lotus1785 Nelumbium1806 wankapin1832 nymphal1846 lotus lily1857 1753    Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2201/2  				Nelumbo, in botany, a plant, otherwise called nymphæa. 1791    E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I  ii. 169  				Linneus, who has enlisted all our senses into the service of botany, has observed this rattling of the Nelumbo. 1801    H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic II. xxxv. 170  				In capitals [of columns]..the branches of the doum, and the flowers of the nelumbo, mingle together. 1804    J. E. Smith Exotic Bot. I. 61  				A carved horn of a rhinoceros, sent to Linnæus from China,..is now before me... The whole inverted base of the horn is carved into an elegant leaf of Nelumbo, rising from the water. 1818    C. Abel Narr. Journey in China v. 103  				Fields of Nelumbo rearing high its glossy leaves and gorgeous flowers..spread at our feet. 1850    S. F. Cooper Rural Hours 275  				It is chiefly in our western waters that the Nelumbo is found. 1884    tr.  A. de Candolle Orig. Cultivated Plants  ii. i. 75  				The nelumbo of Indian origin has ceased to grow in Egypt. 1916    Standard Cycl. Hort. IV. 2117/1  				American Lotus, or Nelumbo... A bold and useful plant for colonizing. 1961    F. Perry Water Gardening 		(ed. 2)	 vii. 76  				[In India] the stranger is presented with fruit and flowers laid in a simple basket fashioned from Nelumbo leaves. 1992    Pract. Fishkeeping Mar. 106/1  				The waterlily..should not be confused with..the Sacred Lotus (Nelumbo)—these are quite different plants. 1994    Systematic Bot. 19 506  				The less homoplastic characters suggest that the genus Nelumbo is placed at a position near Nymphaeales rather than near Ranunculidae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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