water lily

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   an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae

   Broaderaquatic plant

   Narrowerwater nymphEuropean white lilylotusblue lotusspatterdocksouthern spatterdockyellow water lilywater chinquapinwater-shield

   Part ofNymphaeaceae

   Partslily pad

Questions about water lily

What does water lily mean?

water lily means "an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae".

Is water lily a common word?

water lily 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.