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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
lotus-eater
    n 1: someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey
         Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
         [syn: lotus-eater, stargazer]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lotus-eater \Lo"tus-eat`er\ (l[=o]"t[u^]s-[=e]t`[~e]r),
Lotos-eater \Lo"tos-eat`er\ (l[=o]"t[o^]s-[=e]t`[~e]r), n.
   (Class. Myth.)
   One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a
   consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one
   of the Lotophagi.
   [1913 Webster]

         The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters.   --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster]
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