nelumbo lutea

Questions about nelumbo lutea

What does nelumbo lutea mean?

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

What is another word for nelumbo lutea?

Close synonyms include water chinquapin, American lotus, yanquapin. 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 nelumbo lutea a common word?

nelumbo lutea 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.