nymphaeum
noun
a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
nymphaea
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pluralof nymphaeum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The so-called villa of Cicero contains two well-preserved nymphaea with Doric architecture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
I have read somewhere that it delights in eating the nymphaea, or water-lily.
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
It is the former kind, the nymphaea esculenta, of which Heine sings, and his conception of the moon as its lover is distinctively Indic and constantly recurring in Sanskrit literature.
From The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Arthur F. J. Remy
The Rio Tuy winds through districts covered with plantains, and a little wood of Hura crepitans, Erythrina corallodendron, and fig-trees with nymphaea leaves.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
The natives also brought us some roasted nymphaea roots, which they call dillii.
