Lake Tsana
1: a lake in northwestern Ethiopia; thelargest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile [syn: {Lake Tana}]
Lake Vanern
1: a lake in southwestern Sweden; the largest lake in Sweden [syn: {Vanern}]
Lake Victoria
1: the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River [syn: {Victoria Nyanza}]
lake whitefish
1: found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska [syn: {Coregonus clupeaformis}]
Lake Winnipeg
1: a lake in southern Canada in Manitoba [syn: {Winnipeg}]
Lakeland
1: a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain [syn: {Lake District}]
Lakeland terrier
1: breed of wire-haired terrier originally from the Lake District of England and used for hunting
lakeshore
1: the shore of a lake [syn: {lakeside}]
lakeside
1: the shore of a lake [syn: {lakeshore}]
lakh
1: the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten [syn: {hundred thousand}, {100000}]
Lakshmi
1: Hindu goddess of fortune and prosperity
Lallans
1: a dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland [syn: {Scottish Lallans}]
lallation
1: defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme `r' is pronounced as `l' 2: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: {babble}, {babbling}]
lally
1: support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete [syn: {lally column}]
lally column
1: support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete [syn: {lally}]
lallygag
1: be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: {loiter}, {lounge}, {footle}, {lollygag}, {loaf}, {hang aro...
Lalthyrus tingitanus
1: North African annual resembling the sweet pea having showy but odorless flowers [syn: {Tangier pea}, {Tangier peavine}]
lam
1: a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: {getaway}] v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this ...
lam into
1: hit violently, as in an attack [syn: {tear into}, {lace into}, {pitch into}, {lay into}]
lama
1: a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism 2: llamas [syn: {genus Lama}]
Lama pacos
1: domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco [syn: {alpaca}]
Lama peruana
1: used in the Andes as a beast of burden and source of wool; considered a domesticated variety of the guanaco [syn: {domestic llama}]
Lamaism
1: a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism [syn: {Tibetan Buddhism}]
Lamaist
1: (Buddhism) an adherent of Lamaism
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Lamarck
1: French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829) [syn: {Jean Baptiste de Lamarck}, {Chevalier de Lamarck}]
Lamarckian
1: of or relating to Lamarckism; "Lamarckian theories"
Lamarckism
1: a theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring
Lamaze
1: relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth
Lamaze method
1: a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth; the pregnant woman (in classes and at home) practices (usually with the help of a coach) learns about the physiology of childbirth and techni...
Lamaze method of childbirth
1: a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth; the pregnant woman (in classes and at home) practices (usually with the help of a coach) learns about the physiology of childbirth and techni...
lamb
1: young sheep 2: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: {Charles Lamb}, {Elia}] 3: a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) 4: a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especial...
lamb chop
1: chop cut from a lamb [syn: {lamb-chop}, {lambchop}]
lamb roast
1: a cut of lamb suitable for roasting [syn: {roast lamb}]
lamb succory
1: small European herb with small yellow flowers [syn: {dwarf nipplewort}, {Arnoseris minima}]
lamb's lettuce
1: widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed [syn: {common corn salad}, {Valerianella olitoria}, {Valerianella locusta}]
lamb's-quarter
1: leaves collected from the wild [syn: {pigweed}, {wild spinach}]
lamb's-quarters
1: common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb [syn: {pigweed}, {wild spinach}, {Chenopodium album}]
lamb-chop
1: chop cut from a lamb [syn: {lamb chop}, {lambchop}]
lambast
1: beat with a cane [syn: {cane}, {flog}, {lambaste}] 2: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The custome...
lambaste
1: beat with a cane [syn: {cane}, {flog}, {lambast}] 2: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer...
lambchop
1: chop cut from a lamb [syn: {lamb chop}, {lamb-chop}]
lambda
1: the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet 2: the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull
lambda hyperon
1: an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1 [syn: {lambda particle}]
lambda particle
1: an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1 [syn: {lambda hyperon}]
lambdacism
1: speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l'
lambency
1: an appearance of reflected light [syn: {gleam}, {gleaming}, {glow}]
lambent
1: softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: {aglow(p)}, {glowing}, {lucent}, {luminous}...
lambert
1: a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter [syn: {L}] 2: English composer and conductor (1905-1951) [...
Lambert-Eaton syndrome
1: a disease seen in patients with lung cancer and characterized by weakness and fatigue of hip and thigh muscles and an aching back; caused by antibodies directed against the neuromuscular junctions ...
Lambertia
1: small genus of Australian shrubs [syn: {genus Lambertia}]
Lambertia formosa
1: erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar [syn: {honeyflower}, {honey-flower}, {mountain devil}]
Lambis
1: scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of the eastern hemisphere [syn: {genus Lambis}]
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