We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of water lily in English
Any of various members of the Nymphaeaceae family that are tuberous plants, rooted in soil with leaves and flowers floating on the water surface.
Synonyms
Examples for "waterlily"
Examples for "waterlily"
1
The waterlily house at Kew Gardens in May 2013.
2
Her face is as white as a waterlily!
3
These are the summer beauties from many a Monet; indeed they are floating towards a waterlily reef.
4
Yet already, on a mantled pool we journeyed softly by, the waterlily was unfolding, the swan afloat in beauty.
5
The depiction of his famous waterlily garden and Japanese bridge is one of only two of… Read more Audio
Usage of water lily in English
1
She was a water lily cut loose and dying on a pond.
2
The stream was thickly strewn with the pure honours of the water lily.
3
It was half filled with water and showcased a lovely white water lily.
4
The rescue of the thermal water lily was a good news day at Kew.
5
The bowl that had once held the water lily rested empty on the coffee table.
6
It's the water lily statue that Nash promised her on his last day at Arcadia.
7
The world's smallest water lily was heading for extinction.
8
The waking and sleeping of the water lily is by no means an isolated instance.
9
Why would someone steal the world's rarest water lily?
10
Like other water lily collectors, Hutchings's real passion is for hybrids that he creates himself.
11
The water lily took on new meaning, changing from a lovely gift to a sinister warning.
12
He gathered a beautiful water lily for her.
13
The new exhibition brings together five of Claude Monet's greatest water lily paintings for the first time.
14
Mainly with himself: he had decided, the previous spring, to plant the water lily in the glasshouse.
15
When the water lily was taken from the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Magdalena wasn't shocked in the slightest.
16
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Magdalena planted his first water lily when he was five years old.
Translations for water lily
Russian