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Nymphaea   Listen
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Nymphaea  n.  (Bot.) A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers (white, blue, pink, or yellow, often fragrant), including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus. Note: Recent critics have endeavored to show that this genus should be called Castalia, and the name Nymphaea transferred to what is now known as Nuphar.






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"Nymphaea" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the current from the (Victoria) Nyanza Lake. I may note that we need no longer derive from India the lotus-llily so extensively used by the Ancient Egyptians and so neglected by the moderns that it has well nigh disappeared. All the Central African basins abound in the Nymphaea and thence it found its way ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... dies or a new apex is formed laterally. The old notches, as might be expected, at length, become much obliterated. It is from the study of such palms that much light will be thrown on the growth of monocotyledonous stems. The vegetation of jheels is now obviously commencing. Pistia stratioles, Nymphaea, Potamogeton, Potamochloa, Oplismenus stagninus, and Villarsia occur. ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith

... you will keep it in mind yourself, for I have turned my attention to other subjects. Delpino I think says that Magnolia is fertilised by insects which gnaw the petals, and I should not be surprised if the same fact holds good with Nymphaea. Whenever I have looked at the flowers of these latter plants I have felt inclined to admit the view that petals are modified stamens, and not modified leaves; though Poinsettia seems to show that true leaves might be converted ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin



Words linked to "Nymphaea" :   Nymphaea stellata, Nymphaea alba, Nymphaeaceae, white lotus, lotus, water-lily family, Nymphaea caerulea, Egyptian water lily, family Nymphaeaceae, fragrant water lily, pond lily, Nymphaea lotus, white lily, Nymphaea odorata, European white lily, genus Nymphaea, water nymph, magnoliid dicot genus



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