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sacred lotus

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noun

  1. Indian lotus.


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

In one hand he holds a spray of the sacred lotus.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

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