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pond-lily orig. U.S.
Also pond lily.
[f. pond n. + (water-lily.]
A water-lily, esp. the common yellow spatterdock, Nuphar advena.
1748J. Eliot Ess. Field-Husbandry New Eng. (1760) i. 5 A natural Pond..over grown with Pond Lillies. 1778J. Carver Trav. N. Amer. 167 The lake is covered..with the large pond-lily. 1827Western Monthly Rev. I. 251 The flowers are large, of a pure white, nearest resembling the northern pond-lily. 1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. 169 The white Pond lily..is a splendid..plant. 1846Knickerbocker XXVII. 52 A little mill-pond..is covered all over with pond-lilies and rank grasses. 1873T. B. Aldrich Marjorie Daw 14 All this splendor goes into that hammock, and sways there like a pond-lily. 1911G. S. Porter Harvester vii. 121 The pond lilies are just beginning to open. 1938F. Perry Water Gardening vii. 82 The Yellow Pond Lily will flourish in shady positions. 1947E. Paul Linden on Saugus Branch 367 On the Linden ponds, frogs' eggs, turtles, pond lilies with flat leaves, not shaped like plates. 1974H. W. Rickett Wild Flowers U.S. VI. i. 130 The conspicuous part of the yellow pond-lilies is the calyx. |