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lotus

lo.tus or lo.tos \'lo-t-*s\ n [L & Gk; L lotus, fr. Gk lo-tos, fr. Heb lo-t 
   myrrh] [NL, genus name, fr. L] 1: a fruit eaten by the lotus-eaters and 
   held to cause indolence and dreamy  contentment; also : a tree (as Zizyphus 
   lotus of the buckthorn family) reputed to bear this fruit 2: any of various 
   water lilies including several represented in ancient Egy ptian and Hindu 
   art and religious symbolism 3a: any of a genus (Lotus) of widely 
   distributed upright leguminous h erbs or subshrubs 3b: SWEET CLOVER