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the plant esculent whiter waterlily, Nymphaea esculenta.
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its white flower.
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the plant Nymphaea nelumbo; lotus plant.
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its flower; lotus.
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the blue water lily, Nymphaea cyanea.
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its flower; blue lotus.
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a volatile, crystalline ketone, C10H16O, with a strong characteristic odor, derived from the wood of the camphor tree or synthetically from pinene, used to protect fabrics from moths, in manufacturing cellulose plastics, and in medicine as an irritant and stimulant; camphor.
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orange-brown or yellow-brown colour; tawny colour.
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the sun.
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water.
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a large, powerful cat (Panthera leo) with a tawny coat, a tufted tail, and, in the adult male, a shaggy mane; a lion.
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the organ of sight; the eye.
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a pond; a water tank; a lake.
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money, either in the form of paper currency or coins.
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the quality of being hard, powerful, violent and vigorous.
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(myth.) one of the eight celestial elephants that hold this universe; the regent-elephant of South.
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the moon.
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a lotus-like structure in a temple building.
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the tree Cinnamomum camphora of Lauraceae family; camphor cinnamon.
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name of a monkey in the army of Rāma in the epic Rāmāyaṇa.
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(pros.) name of a meter.
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(myth.) one of the fourteen mountains.