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nymphaea

Pronunciation: /nɪmˈfiːə/

The English word “nymphaea” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. the European white water lily.
  2. Any species of the genus Nymphaea.

Etymology

From Latin nymphaea, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖα (numphaîa), feminine singular form of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from translingual Nymphaea, from the same Latin and Greek.

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