NOUN
- water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds
How To Use Nelumbo lutea In A Sentence
- The first (_Nelumbieæ_) has but a single species, the yellow lotus or nelumbo (_Nelumbo lutea_), common in the waters of the west and southwest, but rare eastward (Fig. 101, _F_). Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses