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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 lo·tus-eat·er /-ˌitɚ/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lo·tus-eat·er Lo·tos-eat·er 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.
    The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters.   --Tennyson.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 lotus-eater
      n : someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer
          tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence" [syn:
           stargazer]