american lotus

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   water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds

   Synonymswater chinquapinyanquapinNelumbo lutea

   Broaderwater lily

   Part ofNelumbo

   Partswater chinquapin

Questions about american lotus

What does american lotus mean?

american lotus means "water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds".

What is another word for american lotus?

Close synonyms include water chinquapin, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american lotus a common word?

american lotus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.