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lily pad

noun

  1. the large, floating leaf of a water lily.


lily pad

noun

  1. any of the floating leaves of a water lily
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lily pad1

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
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Example Sentences

It included Zuckerberg doing his favorite water sport, hydrofoiling, with friends in a virtual environment, and then jumping into work meetings from a virtual home office, boxing with virtual avatars and working out on a virtual lily pad.

There is Britney Spears in a neon-pink ball gown on a lily pad cooing for the camera.

The fact is, your head is exactly the color of the lily-pad, and no one could distinguish it a few feet away.

The humming stopped and the Saucer floated in the moonlight like a giant metallic lily-pad, perhaps a half mile away.

She made no move to arise, but kept prodding a lily pad in the water beside her with one taper finger.

But when Mr. Cricket Frog came down again he landed squarely upon another lily-pad.

A nibble of grass, and she waded far out from shore to sip there; then back, with a nod to a lily pad, and a sip nearer the brook.

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