Crossword clues for lotos
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lotus \Lo"tus\ (l[=o]"t[u^]s), n. [L. lotus, Gr. lwto`s. Cf. Lote.]
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(Bot.)
A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymph[ae]a Lotus and Nymph[ae]a c[ae]rulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.
The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain ( Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.
The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
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A genus ( Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover. [Written also lotos.]
European lotus, a small tree ( Diospyros Lotus) of Southern Europe and Asia; also, its rather large bluish black berry, which is called also the date plum.
(Arch.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) (dated form of lotus English)
Wikipedia
Lotos may refer to:
- Grupa Lotos, oil company
- Lotos Kolej, railway company
- Lotos (satellite), a Russian family of electronic intelligence satellites
- Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification
- The Lotos-Eaters, a poem by Alfred Tennyson
Usage examples of "lotos".
Already Lotos could see the first file of pale-bodied warriors moving nervously around the entrance holes.
The forty other party members followed, with Lotos bringing up the far rear.
The question was automatic, but Lotos certainly did not expect an answer and Mondrian showed no sign of offering one.
In the apocalyptic gloom of the control room, Lotos at last completed her own data request.
All of them were crazy, mostly from chewing blue lotos, and no telling what they would do to someone who got between them and what they wanted.
The blue lotos was a rare, wild plant in the marshes of the Mediterranean coastdoubtless spread by sailors over the years.
One by one, the players around Lotos shuddered back to their own body consciousness.
She seemed faintly puzzled, but she said nothing more as Mondrian left and Lotos settled down to sit opposite her.
Most of all, she listened to Lotos with total, focused attention, as though what the other woman was saying was the most interesting thing in the solar system.
A meeting with Dougal MacDougal was due in a few minutes, and despite friendly prompting from Lotos Sheldrake, that prospect made him nervous.
Some medicinal herbs, a couple of twists of blue lotos, a little fly agaric, and his patchy memory.
There were alsounless he misread it totallyat least two cases of black lotos addiction among the students.
And Count Badoero and the Tiepolosthe black lotos smugglers with their partisans, who would be coming across from the mainland.
I had tracked this dealing in that vile black lotos to him, somewhat by accident, while dealing with a Signor Tassole.
George Augustus Sala at a banquet given in his honor by the Lotos Club, January 10, 1885.