nymphaea

Noun

Meaning

A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers (white, blue, pink, or yellow, often fragrant), including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

genus Nymphaea water lily

Hypernyms

magnoliid dicot genus

Phrases with the word

Nymphaea nouchali

Examples

Magnolia shares the tepal characteristic with several other flowering plants near the base of the flowering plant lineage such as Amborella and Nymphaea (as well as with many more recently derived plants such as Lilium ). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

nymph of darkness nymph of the pavement nympha Nymphaea alba Nymphaea caerulea Nymphaea lotus