waterlily

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English

Noun

waterlily (plural waterlilies)

  1. Alternative spelling of water lily
    • 2007 August 10, Benjamin Genocchio, “Inside His Sketchbooks, Clues to Monet”, in New York Times:
      Even the beloved paintings of the slowly evolving garden and lily ponds at his home in Giverny might have started out as rudimentary pencil and crayon studies, as a comparison of a blackish green, purple and blue painting of waterlilies, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a black crayon study from the sketchbooks suggests.