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
In the fresh water grew water-lilies, nymphaea, and reeds; the gold-fishes stood up below in rank and file, all turning their heads one way, that the streaming water might flow into their mouths.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
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 Remy, Arthur F. J.
I have read somewhere that it delights in eating the nymphaea, or water-lily.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
The natives also brought us some roasted nymphaea roots, which they call dillii.
