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Webster 1913 Edition
Nymphaea
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Nym-phae′a
,p
rop.
Noun.
[L., the water lily, Gr. [GREEK].]
(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.
☞ 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
.