What is "nelumbo"

Nelumbo \Ne*lum"bo\, prop. n. [Ceylonese word.] (Bot.) A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, Nelumbo speciosa. [Written also Nelumbium.]

n. Any of the genus ''Nelumbo'' of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers resembling water lily.

Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers. Members are commonly called lotus, though " lotus" is a name also applied to various other plants and plant groups, including the unrelated genus Lotus. Members outwardly resemble those in the family Nymphaeaceae (water lilies), but Nelumbo is actually very distant to Nymphaeaceae. "Nelumbo" is derived from the Sinhalese word nelum (නෙළුම්), the name for the sacred lotus. There are only two known living species in the genus. The sacred lotus ( N. nucifera) is native to Asia, and is the better known of the two. It is commonly cultivated, and also used in Chinese medicine and cooking. This species is the national flower of India and Vietnam. The American lotus ( N. lutea) is native to North America and the Caribbean. Horticultural hybrids have been produced between these two geographically separated species. A third, extinct species, N. aureavallis, is known from Eocene fossils from North Dakota, United States.

Nelumbo is an 2014 Indian avant garde surreal environmental film written and directed by Yadu Vijayakrishnan. It tells the story of wild life photographer meeting up with a Neanderthal Man in a jungle. Nelumbo is set upon a time where the current rash and busy world meets up with a time where people revere nature. The concept of how nature should be respected and worshiped instead of exploiting it for greedy needs is depicted in this movie. It tells the story of how nature can inspire humans to understand the cosmic reality and break away from the chain of illusions. The film is noted for having no dialogues.