Word Meanings - WATERLILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphæa, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphæa. Note: The name is extended to various plants of other related genera, as Nuphar, Euryale, Nelumbo, and Victoria. See Euryale, Lotus, and Victoria, 1.

• PLANTEATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Generalizing
  of Generalize
• Generatrix
  That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.
• Nymphomania
  Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
• Plantable
  Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
• Plantule
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• Distinguishingly
  With distinction; with some mark of preference.
• Species
  Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
• Floatation
  See Flotation.
• Floater
  One who floats or swims.
• VICTORIACRAPE
  A kind of cotton crape.
• Generalize
  To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
• Nymphomany
  Same as Nymphomania.
• Plantage
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
• Related
  of Relate
• Distinguishment
  Observation of difference; distinction.
• Various
  Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.

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