Nelumbo lutea
- noun
- /nəˈlʌmboʊ ˈluːtiə/
- Specialized
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Nelumbo lutea
- We identified the plant as Nelumbo lutea by its pale yellow flowers and large leaves.
Examples
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Native Americans traditionally harvested the seeds of Nelumbo lutea for food.
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The pond was covered in beautiful Nelumbo lutea blossoms in early summer.
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The Nelumbo lutea blooms beautifully in the summer.
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I saw a Nelumbo lutea at the botanical garden.
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Native Americans traditionally harvested the seeds of Nelumbo lutea for food.
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The pond was covered in beautiful Nelumbo lutea blossoms in early summer.
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We identified the plant as Nelumbo lutea by its pale yellow flowers and large leaves.
Synonyms
A water plant with large round leaves, pale yellow flowers, and edible seeds that grows in shallow ponds
A water lily with pale yellow flowers that grows in ponds and has edible seeds
A water lily with pale yellow flowers and round edible seeds that grows in shallow ponds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Nelumbo + lutea
This is a botanical binomial combining the genus name Nelumbo with the Latin epithet lutea (literally ‘yellow’), so if a learner knew both constituents they could infer it denotes a yellow-flowered Nelumbo. However, the epithet is Latin rather than everyday English and is unlikely to be known by a B1 learner, making the compositional link only partly accessible.
Etymology
Nelumbo lutea comes from old words: Nelumbo names the lotus plant and lutea means 'yellow'. So the name is a picture of a 'yellow lotus', which fits this water lily with pale yellow flowers and edible seeds.
