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.
As a literary work, The good, the Bad and the Ugly is deeply rooted in the tradition of the picaresque novel and the commedia dell'arte, two Latin literary traditions. It's also a character study Artaud style, which means the characters are illustrated by means of their actions and by confronting them to each other.