Lotus-eater \Lo"tus-eat`er\, Lotos-eater \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.