Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LOTE
LOTE, n. [Gr. λωτος; L. lotus, lotos.]
- The modern popular name of several plants, more especially of the Zizyphus Lotus of Africa, which is three or four inches high, and produces a fruit about the size of a sloe, with a large stone, which grows on every part of the branches.
- A little fish.
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