LOTUS

noun Etymology: Latin & Greek; Latin ~, from Greek lōtos Date: circa 1541 a fruit eaten by the ~-eaters and considered to cause indolence and dreamy contentment, any of various water lilies including several represented in ancient Egyptian and Hindu art and religious symbolism, 3. \New Latin, from Latin] any of a genus ( Lotus ) of widely distributed upright herbs or subshrubs of the legume family, sweet clover