On the safety of the lily pad, a frog can relax or catch flies without fear of predation. Other species that are often found relaxing on lily pads include painted turtles, damselflies, dragonflies, and beetles, the latter of which serve as the primary pollinators for a number of different species of water lily.
adjective. An ugly mess. An ugly mess. The definition of ugly is someone or something that is visually unpleasing, or something that is threatening. 1  An example of an ugly person is someone who is very unattractive and unpleasant to look at. 2  An example of an ugly attitude is a person who is mean and pessimistic all the time.
Meaning softened to very unpleasant to look at late 14c. Extended sense of morally offensive is attested from c.1300; that of ill-tempered is from 1680s. Among words for this concept, ugly is unusual in being formed from a root for fear, dread.. More common is a compound meaning ill-shaped (e.g. Greek dyseides, Latin deformis, Irish dochrud, Sanskrit ku-rupa). Another Germanic group has a root sense of hate, sorrow (see loath). Ugly duckling (1877) is from the story by Hans Christian Andersen, first translated from Danish to English 1846.