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noun(lo-tus)a fruit eaten by the lotus-eaters and considered to cause indolence and dreamy contentment; also : a tree (such as Zizyphus lotus of the buckthorn family) reputed to bear this fruit
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noun(lo-tus)any of various water lilies including several represented in ancient Egyptian and Hindu art and religious symbolism
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noun(lo-tus)any of a genus (Lotus) of widely distributed upright herbs or subshrubs of the legume family
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noun(lo-tus)any of a people in Homer's Odyssey subsisting on the lotus and living in the dreamy indolence it induces
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noun(lo-tus)an indolent person
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noun(lo-tus)a cross-legged sitting position used in yoga in which each foot is on the thigh of the opposite leg