water lily

noun

: any of various aquatic plants (especially genera Nymphaea and Nuphar of the family Nymphaeaceae, the water-lily family) with floating leaves and usually showy flowers

broadly : an aquatic plant (such as a water hyacinth) with showy flowers

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Sotheby’s on Monday sold a Monet water lilies painting for $65.5 million, and Christie’s on Tuesday sold a painting by the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte for $121 million. —

Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024 Behind them, the conservatory pool is filled with giant water lilies. —

Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024 Outside the pavilion, the Water Lily Court (which exhibits several of Longwood’s 1,200 water lilies) has been enclosed in a ring of columns that transition the historic conservancies made of stone and composite into the contemporary ones of glass and steel. —

William O'Connor, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2024 The botanical garden is a favorite destination for Diana Dil and her children, pictured near a pool of water lilies. —

Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for water lily