LOTUS


Meaning of LOTUS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

lotus position

monks sitting in the lotus position

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

position

The Doctor was hovering above the conference table in the classic lotus position .

He crossed his legs and adopted the meditative lotus position .

She sat on the floor and assumed the lotus position .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A beautiful dish, it is more or less what it sounds like, sticky rice wrapped in green striated lotus leaves.

Its blade was two-edged, and made of heavy bronze, the grooves chased like lotus stems.

Nefertum: the divine lotus or a man with a lotus blossom on his head.

The lotus pads lift themselves huge out of the lake, plates for the gods.

The females play a dominant role, marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds.

The floral examples include a large lotus calyx and two ivy leaves joined by a slight fillet.

The great coral pink and sunny yellow lotus blossoms swayed on their tall stems above the pool.

They brought boxes of moon cakes and swallows' nests and bags of lotus seeds.

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