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The term lotus may refer to:
- An aquatic plant of the genera Nyphaea or Nelumbo (see Nymphaeaceae)
- Lotus Cars, a British car manufacturer.
- Lotus Development, a Cambridge, MA, software company now owned by IBM.
- The Lotus genus in the subfamily Faboideae in the family Fabaceae
- The Lotus Position (meditation)
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.
