Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The European white water-lily, Castalia speciosa (Nymphæa alba).

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  • Even above the hissing boom of the larchwood, that spread its bristling, leafless, wolfish darkness on the down-slope, she heard the tinkle as of tiny water-bells.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

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