pondlily (pondlil"i)

1. A plant of the aquatic genus Nymphæa ( Nuphar ); a coarse plant with yellow globular flowers, and large shining leaves floating or erect (more fully, yellow pond- lily; also yellow water - lily ); spatter dock. N. lutea is the common European plant; N. ad vena, the common species of eastern North America. The yellow pond-lily of Oregon, etc., is N. poly sepal a, the largest species of the genus, with flowers sometimes 5 inches bro and having aromutritious seeds largely gathered 2. A plant of the American species of Castalia ( Nymphæa ), the white pond-lily, more properly by the Indians. See 1. called water -lily. See Nymphæa1, 2. pond-mullet (pond'mul"et), n. A cyprinod cyprinodont fish, Fundulus bermudæ. [Bermudas.] pond-mu el (pond'mus"l), п. A fresh-water mu el, as a unio or an anodon. A very com mon species is the swan-mu el, A no dont a cyg neus. See cut under A no dont a . pond-perch (pond'pėrch), п. A sunfish; any fish of the genus Pomotis or Lepomis. pond-pickerel (pond'pik"e-rel), n. erel. See pick