waterlily

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A form of water lily — Any of various members of the Nymphaeaceae family that are tuberous plants, rooted in soil with leaves (lily pads) and flowers floating on the water surface.

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Meanings

nounwaterlily (plural waterlilies)

plural waterlilies

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of water lily.
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    Even the beloved paintings of the slowly evolving garden and lily ponds at his home in Giverny might have started out as rudimentary pencil and crayon studies, as a comparison of a blackish green, purple and blue painting of waterlilies, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a black crayon study from the sketchbooks suggests.

    2007 August 10, Benjamin Genocchio, “Inside His Sketchbooks, Clues to Monet”, in New York Times
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APA

waterlily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterlily

MLA

“waterlily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterlily. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “waterlily,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waterlily.

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