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Definition of Pond lily

1. Noun. A water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pond Lily

Literary usage of Pond lily

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

1. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"YELLOW pond lily. SPATTER DOCK. Nuphar adrena R. Br. in Ait. Hort. ... SOUTHERN YELLOW pond lily. Ell. Sk. 2:8. Gray, Man. ed. tí. 56. Chap. Fl. 20. ..."

2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"There are two varieties in Minnesota : the common yellow pond-lily, abundant throughout the state, and the small yellow pond-lily, of which the flowers are ..."

3. The Nursery (1873)
"THE BIRDS AND THE POND-LILY. FOUR little birds came out to greet The first pond-lily, so fair and sweet, The first that opened its petals white To the ..."

4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1890)
"Yellow Pond-lily. 95. N. ADVENA. Ait. (Common Yellow Pond-lily. ... (Least Yellow Pond-lily.) Jf. luteum, var pumilum. Gray's Manual, 57. Streams and lakes. ..."

5. The Nursery (1868)
"THE POND-LILY, SEE, ... is trying to pluck a pond-lily to give to his sister Mary ! Look out that you do not fall into the pond, Robert! The lily is sweet; ..."

6. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"The river has a descent of 72 or 73 feet from the head of back-water of the Pond Lily dam to the bridge, a distance of 1J miles, ..."

7. The Mysteries of the Flowers by Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917)
"This pond-lily possesses no fragrance, but it attracts the Halictus bees (according to Professor Robertson) and beetles named Donacia ..."

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