| 单词 | rose lily of the nile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrose lily of the Nile rose lily n. †(a) = rose of Sharon n. 1a (obsolete rare); (b) (more fully rose lily of the Nile) the sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, an Asian plant with red flowers (now historical). ΚΠ 1728 J. Gill Expos. Canticles v. 270 I suppose that not white lillies are here meant, but purple or red lillies, of which Pliny speaks, the flower of which, he says, some call the rose lilly. 1803 Philos. Mag. 15 259 The rose lily or Egyptian bean, which is frequently carved out among the ornaments and symbolical representations of the Egyptian temples. 1928 E. Hawks Pioneers Plant Study ii. 23 Herodotus called it the Rose Lily of the Nile. 2001 Exotic & Greenhouse Gardening June 34/4 Its name derives from the Sanskrit ‘nilotpala’. It is also called rose-lily of the Nile, sacred bean of Egypt, pondnuts and water chinkapin of North America. < as lemmas |
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