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  1. Nymphaeaceae, family Nymphaeaceae, water-lily familynoun

    dicot aquatic plants

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  1. water-lily family

    Nymphaeaceae () is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains nine genera with about 70 known species. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on or emergent from the surface. Leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and Nuphar, but fully circular in Victoria and Euryale. Water lilies are a well-studied clade of plants because their large flowers with multiple unspecialized parts were initially considered to represent the floral pattern of the earliest flowering plants, and later genetic studies confirmed their evolutionary position as basal angiosperms. Analyses of floral morphology and molecular characteristics and comparisons with a sister taxon, the family Cabombaceae, indicate, however, that the flowers of extant water lilies with the most floral parts are more derived than the genera with fewer floral parts. Genera with more floral parts, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Victoria, have a beetle pollination syndrome, while genera with fewer parts are pollinated by flies or bees, or are self- or wind-pollinated. Thus, the large number of relatively unspecialized floral organs in the Nymphaeaceae is not an ancestral condition for the clade.

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  1. water-lily family

    The water-lily family, scientifically known as Nymphaeaceae, is a family of flowering plants. This family includes about 70 species across 6 genera, which are often characterized by their large and floating leaves, and elegant flowers that may be found on the water's surface. They are aquatic perennial herbs and are most commonly found in freshwater habitats across temperate and tropical climates. Some well-known members of this family include the water lilies, lotus, and water shields.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of water-lily family in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of water-lily family in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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