Egyptian lotus

American  

noun

1. either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea blue lotus, having light blue flowers, or N. lotus white lotus, having white flowers.

2. Indian lotus.

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Example Sentences

“Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York,” which opens on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows how he experimented with Biedermeier and Rococo curves, Egyptian lotus patterns and Gothic trefoils and pointed arches.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2011

Next summer, more coffins were unearthed, all decorated with human masks, wigged in the Egyptian manner and topped by Egyptian lotus flowers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nymph�a, nim-fē′a, n. a genus of water-plants, with beautiful fragrant flowers, including the water-lily, Egyptian lotus, &c.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Underneath this inscription is carved in sunk work an Egyptian lotus flower in an upright position; on the back of the mausoleum is the date of the year in which Gaspard Monge died.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827 by Various

Colors of flowers, laws governing colors and combinations, 44, 45;natural exception to; three primary colors in the hyacinth, Egyptian lotus; sky reflections destroying color, 45.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)