Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prickly shrub, Zizyphus Lotus, native in northern Africa and southern Europe, yielding one of the jujube-fruits, a sweet and pleasant-flavored drupe of the size of an olive.
- noun The nettle-tree, Celtis australis, bearing a small sweet berry, which has sometimes been identified with the ancient lotus-food. Also called
tree-lotus . SeeCeltis and nettle-tree. - noun The date-plum, Diospyros Lotos, an Asiatic tree, cultivated in southern Europe.
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Examples
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Near it is a small enclosure of low wooden railing, which contains some palm-trees, held sacred by the Moslims, because they are said to have been planted by Fatme, and another tree, of which the stem only now remains, and which I believe to have been a nebek, or lotus-tree.
Travels in Arabia 2003
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The shorn tresses of the Vestal Virgins were hung on an ancient lotus-tree.
Chapter 21. Tabooed Things. § 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails 1922
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The shorn tresses of the Vestal Virgins were hung on an ancient lotus-tree.
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The shorn tresses of the Vestal Virgins were hung on an ancient lotus-tree.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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The lotus-eaters ate of the fruit of the lotus-tree and forgot their homes and friends.
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1879
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"Hanút," i.e., leaves of the lotus-tree to be infused as a wash for the corpse; camphor used with cotton to close the mouth and other orifices; and, in the case of a wealthy man, rose-water, musk, ambergris, sandal-wood, and lignaloes for fumigation.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Fatme, and another tree, of which the stem only now remains, and which I believe to have been a nebek, or lotus-tree.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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The shorn tresses of the Vestal Virgins were hung on an ancient lotus-tree.
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"Have the doves that moan in the lotus-tree * Woke grief in thy heart and bred misery?
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The winds are lulled, and the snow falls incessant, covering the tops of the mountains, and the hills, and the plains where the lotus-tree grows, and the cultivated fields, and they are falling by the inlets and shores of the foaming sea, but are silently dissolved by the waves. "
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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