noun
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any of various water-plants as water-lily, lotus, etc.
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a flower of any of these plants, esp. of lotus.
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an elephant.
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the grass Cyperus rotundus ( = C. hexastachyus) of Cyperaceae family; sedge.
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(pros.) a prosidical verse having four lines, each of which having three groups of three syllables each (-u-, uu-, uu-).