sacred lotus
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sacred lotus
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Just yesterday I received seeds from a type of sacred lotus that were 3,000 years old.
From The Verge ● Mar. 30, 2018
Discussing how to “see” a plant, he looks at the sacred lotus, flowering above the mud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2016
Two other polyploid plants made waves last week: the carnivorous bladderwort and the sacred lotus.
From Scientific American ● May 19, 2013
A scroll honoring that struggle, from a group called Friends of Shinobazu Pond, a sacred lotus pond in Tokyo, begins “To the Friends of Van Voorhees Park.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2011
The underlying motive which makes such a transference easy is the Egyptian conception of Hathor as a sacred lotus from which the sun-god Horus is born.
From The Evolution of the Dragon by Smith, G. Elliot
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