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1. Native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers
   - Indian lotus, sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera
    
2. White Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians
   - white lotus, Egyptian water lily, white lily, Nymphaea lotus

1. Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs
   - genus Lotus

Derived forms: lotuses

Type of: rosid dicot genus, water lily

Part of: genus Nymphaea, Nymphaea, Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae

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