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water lily

NOUN
  1. an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae

How To Use water lily In A Sentence

  • Idris saw me: with light step she advanced; as I folded her in my arms, feeling, as I did, that I thus enclosed what was to me a world, yet frail as the waterdrop which the noon-day sun will drink from the water lily's cup; tears filled my eyes, unwont to be thus moistened. II.6
  • It has mats of water lily Nymphaea alba and bushes of goat willow Salix caprea, grey willow S. cinerea and purple osier S. purpurea. Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria
  • The installations were accompanied by small nature paintings, a tangled root clump in one, a water lily in another.
  • Aquatic and marginal plants associated with the lakes include: water mint, gipsywort, pond edge, water fogwort, branched bur-reed and yellow water lily.
  • Other favorite flowers are pussy willow, azalea, peony and water lily or narcissus.
  • Or use the cauldron as a water garden and grow horsetail, a water lily or other aquatics.
  • The water lily in the pond is in full blossom now.
  • Mr. Browning answered, "Lilies are of all colors in Palestine -- one sort is particularized as _white_ with a dark blue spot and streak -- the water lily, lotus, which I think I meant, is _blue_ altogether. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning
  • There'd be some pondweed, lotus and water lily, but you could still take a boat out here and fish.
  • The unfortunate mistranslation of water hyacinth as "water lily" is seen less frequently these days. Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth
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