"Lotus" is a word in ENGLISH
A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium
speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to
this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea
Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and
blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum,
are figured on its ancient monuments.
The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in
Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the
fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make
strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire
to return to it.
An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally
asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.
The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
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lútus n lotus plant cultivated for ornamental purposes, flow-ers esp. used for decorating altars: Nelumbium nelumbo.
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