"Tippi" > wrote in message
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> Reel Mckoi wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> > http://www.thailandlife.com/lotus_flower.htm
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>> This is a picture of a water lily. :-) It looks like a tropical
>> variety.
>> Lotus grow with their leaves way up out of the water.
>
> Asian languages are not very precise in labeling plants. In Chinese,
> lotus is "leen", waterlily is "sui leen", meaning "the sleeping lotus",
> refering to the habit of the flowers and leaves sleeping on the water,
> versus the erect habit of the lotus. And I thought "hoh" means
> waterlily, but then found out it refers to the lotus, and was
> originally the name for their leaves specifically.
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I understand now. :-)
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