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The phrase "water lily" is used to describe aquatic plants of the following families, which have
lily pads:
- Nymphaeaceae
Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live in freshwater areas in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains eight genera. There are about 70 species of water lilies around the world. The genus...
- Nelumbonaceae (Nelumbo
Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers resembling water lilies, commonly known as lotus. The generic name is derived from the Sinhalese word Nelum. There are only two known living species in the genus. The sacred lotus is native to Asia, and is the better known of the two...
), also called "lotusLotus identifies various plant taxa:* Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers** Nelumbo nucifera, the Sacred or Indian lotus** Nelumbo lutea, the American or Yellow lotus...
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Water lily may also refer to:
- Water Lilies
Water Lilies is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet . The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life...
, a famous painting series by Claude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
- Water Lilies (film)
Water Lilies is a 2007 French film and the debut as a screenwriter and director of Céline Sciamma.-Plot:The film tracks the sexual awakenings of three 15-years-old female friends over the course of a single summer...
(Naissance des pieuvres), a 2007 film by Céline Sciamma
- Water Lily Acoustics
Water Lily Acoustics is an American record label based in Santa Barbara, California. It primarily releases recordings of Indian classical music and cross-cultural collaborations between musicians from around the world...
, a record label
- Waterlily
Waterlily is a novel by Ella Cara Deloria.-Waterlily Overview:Waterlily was written by Deloria in the early 1940s but was not published until 1988, eighteen years after her death...
, an ethnographic novel by Ella Cara DeloriaElla Cara Deloria , also called Ąnpétu Wašté Wįn , was an educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist of Yankton Sioux background...
- Lily pads, military slang for Cooperative Security Location
A Cooperative Security Location is a U.S. military term for facilities used for regional training in counterterrorism and interdiction of drug trafficking, and also to provide contingency access to the continent. "A CSL is a host-nation facility with little or no permanent U.S...
- Lilypad, a futuristic concept for artificial island
An artificial island or man-made island is an island or archipelago that has been constructed by people rather than formed by natural means...
s or floating citiesSeasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, outside the territories claimed by the governments of any standing nation....
, envisioned by architect Vincent Callebaut
- LilyPad Arduino
Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR...
- Waterlillies
Waterlillies is a male-female electronica–pop–trip hop duo that released a pair of albums on Sire/Reprise/Warner Bros. Records in the 1990s. Group members are instrumentalist and producer Ray Carroll, with vocalist Jill Alikas-St. Thomas...
, a male-female electronica–pop–trip hop duo from the 1990s