nelumbo

English Thesaurus

1. sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	magnoliid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	american lotus, nelumbo lutea, water chinquapin, yanquapin,
definition	:	water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	nelumbonaceae, subfamily nelumbonaceae,
definition	:	in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo (noun.plant)