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the flower that builds a five-star palace out of swamp sludge
means A water plant with large, often pink or white floating flowers, rooted in mud but rising clean above the surface — sacred in many Asian traditions and famous in myth for inducing blissful forgetfulness.
from From Greek 'lōtos,' a name the Greeks slapped on several quite different plants — clovers, jujube trees, and the dreamy fruit of Homer's 'lotus-eaters,' whose mortals tasted it and lost all desire to go home. The Greeks likely borrowed it from a Semitic source (compare Hebrew 'lōt'). Only later did the name settle firmly onto the water-lilies of the Nile and Asia, fusing the Egyptian and Indian sacred blossom with that old Homeric haze of forgetting.
- self-cleaning
- Leaves repel water so perfectly scientists named it the lotus effect
- time traveler
- Seeds have sprouted after 1,300 years dormant
- own thermostat
- Blooms heat themselves to lure in pollinators
- sacred resume
- Symbol of purity across Hinduism, Buddhism, ancient Egypt
lotus flower — sacred aquatic plant in egypt, india, and east asia, symbolizes rebirth across cultures for 5,000+ years
lotus cars — british sports car manufacturer founded 1948 in norfolk, made the iconic lotus elise
lotus position — yoga sitting pose named after the flower, foundational in meditation and hatha yoga