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nenuphar ‎(plural nenuphars)

1. A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
   • 1923, Powys Mathers (translator), The Thousand Nights and One Night:

     Arrived at the stall of a fruiterer, she bought Syrian apples, Osmāni quinces, peaches from Uman, jasmine of Aleppo, Damascene nenuphars, cucumbers from the Nile, limes from Egypt, Sultānī citrons, myrtle berries, flowers of henna, blood-red anemones, violets, pomegranate bloom, and the narcissus.

   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:

     Somewhere an iron curtain had gone up, baring a painted one, with nymphs and nenuphars.