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Lotus

The term lotus may refer to:

The lotus tree

The word "lotus" is also applied to a tree unrelated and not resembling the
aquatic plant. The Lotus-eaters of the Odyssey are thought to have eaten a species of jujube or Zizyphus; this would be the lotus tree that the mythological Lotis had been transformed into. The genus Lotus belongs to the Fabaceae.