Definition of Nuphar advena

1. Noun. Common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water.

Exact synonyms: Cow Lily, Spatterdock, Yellow Pond Lily
Generic synonyms: Water Lily
Group relationships: Genus Nuphar, Nuphar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuphar Advena

Numidinae
Nummulitidae
Nun
Nunatsiavut
Nunatukavut
Nunavik
Nunavimmiut
Nunavummiuq
Nunavummiut
Nunavut
Nunc dimittis
Nung
Nunga
Nunki
Nuoro
Nuphar advena (current term)
Nuphar lutea
Nuphar sagittifolium
Nuprin
Nuptse
Nuremberg
Nuremberg defence
Nuremberg defences
Nuremberg defense
Nuremberg defenses
Nureyev
Nuristani
Nuristanis
Nurnberg
Nurse Ratched

Literary usage of Nuphar advena

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Botany: Being a Second Series of the Botanical Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1834)
"28. Nymphaea odorata, Ait.—N. Orl. (n. 11.) 29. Nuphar advena, Ait.—Jacksonville. * Dr. Short of Kentucky writes me word, in respect to the ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Nuphar advena R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3: 295. 1811. ... minor of Nuphar advena having smaller flowers, the margins of the stigmatic disc more ..."

3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"Nymphaea (Nuphar) advena, reported from Wyoming, is probably this species. 44. CERATOPHYLLACEAE L. HORNWORT FAMILY Aquatic herbs, with whorled finely ..."

4. C.E. Hobbs' Botanical Hand-book: Of Common Local, English, Botanical and by Charles E. Hobbs (1876)
"Fl. orn. ; fragrant. see Nuphar advena. Europ'n white water lily Rt. and Ls. dem. a-aph. ast. emo. ..."

5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"(N. hybrida Peck; Nuphar advena, var. min un Morong.)—NB to Mich, and Pa. — Probably a hybrid between N. advena, var. variegata and the next species. 2. ..."

6. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"Nuphar advena R. Br. In company with water-lilies, but often a dirty plant seeming to delight in filth. Common. Th. 978. N. advena minor Morong. ..."

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