AMERICAN LOTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American lotus mean? 

• AMERICAN LOTUS (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN LOTUS has 1 sense:

1. water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN LOTUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN LOTUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American lotus; Nelumbo lutea; water chinquapin; yanquapin

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

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

Meronyms (parts of "American lotus"):

water chinquapin (edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin)

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

genus Nelumbo; Nelumbo (sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses)