prairie lotus
- noun
- US
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loto de pradera
- While hiking across the plain, Maria spotted a cluster of beautiful prairie lotus in bloom.
Examples
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Gardeners value the prairie lotus for its vibrant rose-colored flowers that attract pollinators.
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The prairie lotus thrives in open grassland environments with plenty of sunlight.
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The prairie lotus blooms beautifully in the summer.
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I saw a vibrant prairie lotus in the field.
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Gardeners value the prairie lotus for its vibrant rose-colored flowers that attract pollinators.
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The prairie lotus thrives in open grassland environments with plenty of sunlight.
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While hiking across the plain, Maria spotted a cluster of beautiful prairie lotus in bloom.
Synonyms
An annual North American plant with red or pink flowers that grows in prairies
A North American plant that lives one year with red or pink flowers in the pea family
A North American plant that lives for one year with bright pink or red pea-like flowers
How Colorful
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a lotus that grows on prairies' is directly derivable from combining 'prairie' (grassland) with 'lotus' (a plant), so a learner who knows both words will infer it refers to a plant associated with prairies. This simple location+noun composition is cross-linguistically common and requires no idiomatic knowledge, making the expression transparently interpretable even without botanical detail.
Etymology
Prairie lotus probably comes from the simple picture the name makes: a pretty lotus-like flower growing on the open prairie. So the name means 'a plant with rose-colored flowers that is often found on grassland'.
