Portuguese
nymphaea Catalan
genus nymphaea 1
I have read somewhere that it delights in eating the nymphaea, or water-lily.
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The natives also brought us some roasted nymphaea roots, which they call dillii.
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Her eyes resembled the full-blown blue nymphaea; her arms the charming stalk of the lotus; her flowing tresses the thick darkness of night.
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The Rio Tuy winds through districts covered with plantains, and a little wood of Hura crepitans, Erythrina corallodendron, and fig-trees with nymphaea leaves.
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We made a long herborization in a thick forest, extending beyond the Hato, and abounding in cedrelas, browneas, and fig-trees with nymphaea leaves.
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Wherever there are deep declivities, or masses of rocks half covered with mould, the clusia or cupey, with great nymphaea flowers, displays its beautiful verdure.
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That is certainly the case with the Nymphaea thermarum.
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The Nymphaea thermarum was the garden's pin-up for International Day for Biodiversity, in May 2010.
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As well as being hard to get at, the Nymphaea thermarum were not flowering in January.
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We encamped at a fine Nymphaea lagoon, in the rich shade of a white drooping gum tree.
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What you cannot have. The first batch of Nymphaea thermarum seeds arrived at Kew in July 2009.
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Butomus esculent; Lotus of Egypt; Nymphæa
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Its sandy and occasionally rocky bed, was dry; but parallel lines of Nymphaea lagoons extended on both sides.
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I threw a tin canister over to them, and they returned me a shower of roasted Nymphaea fruit.
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In the lower part of the gully, we came upon some fine Nymphaea ponds and springs surrounded by ferns.
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Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae).-ProfessorCaspary informs me that some of the species are quite sterile if insects are excluded.