Lotus may refer to:
in horticulture:
- Lotus (genus), it includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches
- Nelumbo nucifera, blue or Indian lotus
- Nelumbo lutea, American lotus
- Nymphaea, the water-lily genus superficially similar to Nelumbo
- Nymphaea alba, European white water-lily or white lotus
- Nymphaea caerulea, Egyptian blue lily or sacred blue lily, also called the blue or sacred lotus
- Nymphaea lotus, the Egyptian white water-lily or tiger lotus
- Lotus effect, self-cleaning property of Nelumbo species
- Saussurea laniceps, snow lotus
- Ziziphus lotus, thorny shrub that may have been the "lotus tree" of Greek mythology
in culture (Asian):
in corporate and computing:
- Lotus Software, previously Lotus Development Corporation, software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- IBM Lotus Connections, social networking program
- IBM Lotus Quickr, enterprise-level team collaboration
- Lotus 1-2-3, spreadsheet program
- Lotus Cars, British sports and racing car manufacturer
- Lotus (computer games), a videogame series based on Lotus Cars
- Lotus Notes, enterprise-level electronic messaging
- Lotus Sametime, instant messaging program
- Team Lotus, Formula 1 constructor related to Lotus Cars
- Tesco Lotus, chain of Thai hypermarket stores
in geography:
in maritime
- S.S.S. Lotus, gaff-rigged schooner
- Lotus case, a precedent-setting case resulting from a collision between the S.S. Lotus and the S.S. Boz-Kourt
in other meanings:
- Lotus tree of Greek mythology, into which Lotis was transformed, and which was eaten by the Lotophagi of Homer's Odyssey
