Lexicographical Neighbors of Nelumbium
Literary usage of Nelumbium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"nelumbium N. LUTEUM (yellow), our common native species, may be taken as the type
... Few plants have so interesting or ancient a history as nelumbium ..."
2. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson (1889)
"Crocodiles and the nelumbium ¡ire represented, with the Nile god, on the large
statue in the Vatican at Rome, and in many Roman-Egyptian sculptures (see ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1836)
"On the Germination of the nelumbium Speciosum. By JLR HAVING received from a
friend a fresh nut of this splendid oriental plant, I was induced to watch the ..."
4. Lawns and Gardens: How to Plant and Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure by Nils Jönsson-Rose (1897)
"... sometimes held above the surface of the water. Flowers yellow, fleshy, seldom
floating. There are two or three species. Lotus, nelumbium ..."
5. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"be called a Monomerous tuber, namely in nelumbium luteum (Fig. 108"), where it
consists of a single thickened ..."
6. A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea by Robert Fortune (1852)
"... —A Chinese caught fishing in the sacred lake — He is chased by the priests —
The bamboo again — The sacred nelumbium — My holidays expire — Collections ..."
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