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Meanings of white lotus in English
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nymphaea lotus White Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians.
Plant species (Nymphaea alba) from the water lily family (Nymphaeaceae) with white flowers, which grows in standing or slowly flowing waters in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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Examples for "nenuphar"
Examples for "nenuphar"
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Nenuphar Collonges looks magnificent and if his jumping holds up -that is an IF with a capital I -he can prove well-handicapped.
2
Close to your hand lies a little volume, bound in some Nile-green skin that has been powdered with gilded nenuphars and smoothed with hard ivory.
3
230, D. 12-punctata) now attacks the squash plants before they are fairly up; and the Plum weevil (Conotrachelus nenuphar, Fig.
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Wichita Lineman won at 5-1 with Maljimar, who ran a tremendous race, second at 14-1 and Nenuphar Collonges back in third at 17-2.
Usage of white lotus in English
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In Buddhist religion the beautiful white lotus flower is a symbol of purity.
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After a few moments, she rose and brought a white lotus to me.
3
And most of these little feet are clad with spotless tabi, white as a white lotus.
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The sacred white lotus must be your emblem, and Horus, the hawk-headed, merged in Ra, your special deity.
5
From before dawn, people gathered along the river bank clutching bunches of white lotus flowers as a symbol of purity.
6
Boshen looked at the boy, too beautiful for the grimy underground, a white lotus blossom untouched by the surrounding mud.
7
If thoughts can purify, Millicent's heart should have been as fair as a white lotus flower whose roots are in the mud.
8
Everywhere a tear met blood, a white lotus sprang up, one after the other until Alec's chest was covered in them, like a pall.
9
Huge fountains were tossing up showers of spray, which fell tinkling onto broad basins wherein the cups of the blue and white lotus were floating.
10
There was a White Lotus fortification, a cave, near Blue Crane mountain.
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Government troops caught the leader of the " White Lotus" agitation, but he succeeded in escaping.
12
In 1775 there came another popular rising, in Honan-thatof the "Society of the White Lotus".
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One of the Bibles of the Buddhists is named "The White Lotus of the Good Laer."
14
"The White Lotus," Temeraire said, "who took you prisoner.
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"They flock round him like bees round the white lotus, leaving the golden jar of honey unheeded."
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Fenollosa speaks of a " White Lotus Club," organized by Hui Yuan, A Buddhist priest, and consisteing of "mountain-climbers and thinkers,"-TaoYuan-ming being a member.
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