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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_140190" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_140190" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea [[Lotus]] and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) An ornament much used in [[Egyptian]] architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42028" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42028" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 09:57, 13 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.
(2): ( n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
(3): ( n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.
(4): ( n.) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
(5): ( n.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.
Holman Bible Dictionary [2]
Job 40:21-22 Zizyphus lotus Nymphae lotus
