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nelumbo|nɪˈlʌmbəʊ|
[mod.L. (M. Adanson Familles des Plantes (1763) I. 73); see nelumbium.]
= nelumbium.
1794E. Darwin Botanic Garden (ed. 4) ii. 169 With sweet loquacity Nelumbo sails, Shouts to his shores, and parleys with his gales. Ibid., Linneus [sic], who has enlisted all our senses into the service of botany, has observed this rattling of the Nelumbo. 1804J. E. Smith Exotic Botany 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. 1818C. Abel Narr. Journey in China v. 103 Fields of Nelumbo rearing high its glossy leaves and gorgeous flowers..spread at our feet. 1850S. F. Cooper Rural Hours 275 It is chiefly in our western waters that the Nelumbo is found. 1884tr. A. de Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Plants ii. i. 75 The nelumbo of Indian origin has ceased to grow in Egypt. 1916L. H. Bailey Stand. Cycl. Hort. IV. 2117/1 American Lotus, or Nelumbo... A bold and useful plant for colonizing. 1961F. Perry Water Gardening (ed. 2) vii. 75 Nelumbos are reproduced by means of long creeping rootstocks. Ibid. 76 [In India] the stranger is presented with fruit and flowers laid in a simple basket fashioned from Nelumbo leaves. |