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noun
- A part of an orchid flower which serves to attract insects that will pollinate the flower.
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noun (labi, a)
- (anatomy) A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva.
- (botany) The lip of a labiate corolla.
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| lacuna |
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noun (plural lacunae or lacunas)
- A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
- An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
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| lamina |
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noun (pl1=laminaspl2=laminae)
- (anatomy) A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra.
- (botany) The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade.
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| lanceolate |
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adjective - (botany) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
- (context, technical) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
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| lank |
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verb intransitive & transitive
- To become lank; to make lank.
adjective (Comparative Lanker ; superl. Lankest.] AS. hlanc; cf. G. lenken to turn, gelenk joint, OHG. hlanca hip, side, flank, and E. link of a chain.
- Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
- Meager and lank with fasting grown. - Swift.
- Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - Barrow.
- Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 w:Cormac McCarthy?, McCarthy?, w:Blood Meridian, Blood Meridian, chapter 1.
- Languid; drooping.Obs.
- Who, piteous of her woes, reared her head. - Milton
- Lank hair, long, thin hair. - Macaulay
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| latent |
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adjective
- existing or present but concealed or inactive
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| layer |
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noun
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- A person who lays things, such as tiles.
- A hen kept to lay eggs.
- An item of clothing wear, worn under or over another.
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| layering |
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noun - A method of plant propagation by rooting cuttings.
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| leaf |
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noun (leaves)
- An organ of a plant typically divided into a flattened portion (the blade) and a narrow stalk (the petiole) and serving as the principal site of photosynthesis and transpiration.
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- gold leaf
- A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- (in plural leaves) tea leaf, Tea leaves.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (context, computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
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| leafage |
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noun - Collectively the leaves of plants.
- Color-change in New England is the tourist time where people come to see the go brilliant colors.
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| leafed |
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verb
- (past of, leaf)
adjective
- Having a leaf or leaves; used mainly in combination with another word to form adjectives describing the number, form, colour, etc., of leaves.
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| leaflet |
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noun
- (context, botany) One of the components of a compound leaf.
- (context, botany) A small plant leaf.
- The new leaflets at the end of the branch were a lighter shade of green than the mature leaves.
- A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.
- A had been left under the car's windshield wiper.
- (context, anatomy) A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
verb - (transitive) To distribute leaflets to.
- A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen.
- (intransitive) To distribute leaflets.
- During the summer, Peter earned some extra cash by leafleting for a local pizza delivery restaurant.
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| leafstalk |
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noun (Plural: leafstalks)
- The stalk that supports a leaf and connects it to the plant.
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| leafy |
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adjective (leafier, leafiest)
- covered with leaves
- leafy trees
- containing much foliage
- a leafy avenue
- in the form of leaves (of some material)
- resembling a leaf
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| leave |
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noun
- (dated) permission, Permission.
- Might I beg to accompany you?
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- I've been given three weeks' by my boss.
- (dated) Farewell, departure.
- I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
verb (leaves, leaving, left)
- (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
- When my father died, he left me the house.
- (transitive) To be left or over; to remain as available.
- There's not much food left, we'd better go to the shops.
- (transitive) To not take away with oneself but leave as available for others; to deposit.
- I'll the car in the station so you can pick it up there.
- (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention (to); to stop being concerned with.
- Can't we just this to the experts?
- (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- I left the country and I left my wife.
- (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- ''I think you'd better .
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| leaved |
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adjective - Having a leaf, leaves or folds; used mainly in combination with another word to form adjectives describing the number, form, colour, etc, of leaves.
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| leaves |
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noun
- (plural of, leaf)
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| lemma |
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noun (s, pl2=lemmata)
- (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
- (linguistics, usually) A canonical form of a term, particularly in the context of highly inflected languages.
- (linguistics, less frequently) A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term.
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| levigate |
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verb
- An alternative spelling of lí¦vigate.
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| ligneous |
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adjective
- Of, or resembling wood; woody.
- (botany) Containing lignin or xylem.
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| lignify |
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verb (lignif, i, ed)
- (intransitive) To become wood.
- (intransitive), (botany): To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
- (intransitive), (by extension): To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
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| lignin |
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noun
- (organic compound) A complex non-carbohydrate aromatic polymer present in all wood.
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| ligula |
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noun
- a strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects
- 1974: He unhasped the ligulae of his haversack, taking out a pair of blue jeans which he tossed to Bruno. " Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
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| ligule |
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noun
- A strap-shaped structure.
- (botany) A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present.
- (botany) In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath.
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noun
- (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- (countable) The rim of an open container.
<!--same as previous definition:
- an edge that projects slightly, such as the rim of the lid for a pot or jar.-->
- (context, slang, uncountable) impertinence, Impertinence.
- Don"t give me any !
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| lipped |
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adjective - Having a raised lip.
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| lobe |
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noun
- Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
- (anatomy) A division of the brain.
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| lobed |
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adjective - Having lobes.
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| lop |
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noun
- (Geordie) A flea.
- Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops
verb (lopp, ed)
- To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree.
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| lumen |
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noun (pl=lumens, pl2=lumina)
- (physics) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the amount of light that falls on a unit area at unit distance from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm
- (anatomy) The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ.
- (botany) The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall.
- The bore of a tube such as a hollow needle or catheter.
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| lush |
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noun
- (context, informal, pejorative) alcoholic
adjective (lush, er)
- dense, teeming with life (usually used to describe vegetation)
- 2006: Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times - "Some of the world's best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains."
- luxuriant, delicious (usually used to describe food)
- That meal was ! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!
- (context, UK, slang) beautiful, sexy
- (context, Wales, slang) amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
- Your voice is , Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
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