lambkill
1: North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock [syn: {sheep laurel}, {pig laurel}, {Kalmia angustifolia}]
lamblike
1: like a lamb in meekness and gentleness
lamboid suture
1: the suture between the occipital and parietal bones [syn: {sutura lamboidea}]
lambrequin
1: a scarf that covers a knight's helmet 2: short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing
lambskin
1: the skin of a lamb with the wool still on 2: skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on [syn: {parchment}, {sheepskin}]
lame
1: pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument" [syn: {feeble}] 2: (of horses) disabled in the feet or legs [syn: {spavined}] 3: disabled in the feet or legs; "...
lame duck
1: an elected official still in office but not slated to continue
lamedh
1: the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
lamella
1: any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus [syn: {gill}] 2: a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form b...
lamellibranch
1: bivalve [syn: {pelecypod}, {pelecypodous}] n : marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together [syn: {bivalve}, {pelecypod}]
Lamellibranchia
1: oysters; clams; scallops; mussels [syn: {Bivalvia}, {class Bivalvia}, {class Lamellibranchia}, {class Pelecypoda}]
Lamellicornia
1: scarabaeid beetles and stag beetles [syn: {superfamily Lamellicornia}]
lamely
1: in a weak and unconvincing manner; "`I don't know, Edward,' she answered lamely"
lameness
1: disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet [syn: {limping}, {gimp}, {gimpiness}, {gameness}, {claudication}]
lament
1: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" [syn: {lamentation}, {plaint}, {wail}] 2: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a d...
lamentable
1: an archaic word for mournful; "tell thou the lamentable tale of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds"- Shakespeare 2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lament...
lamentably
1: in an unfortunate or deplorable manner; "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate" [syn: {deplorably}, {sadly}, {woefully}]
lamentation
1: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" [syn: {lament}, {plaint}, {wail}] 2: the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief [syn: {mourn...
Lamentations
1: an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah [syn: {Book of Lamentations}]
lamented
1: mourned or grieved for; "the imprint of our wise and lamented friend"- A.E.Stevenson [ant: {unlamented}]
lamenter
1: a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) [syn: {mourner}, {griever}, {sorrower}]
lamenting
1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakesp...
lamia
1: (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living [syn: {vampire}] [also: {lamiae} (pl)]
Lamiaceae
1: the mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary [syn: {Labiatae}, {fam...
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lamina
1: a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral) [also: {laminae} (pl)]
lamina arcus vertebrae
1: lamina of the vertebral arch; the flattened posterior part of the vertebral arch from which the spinous process extends
laminal
1: arranged in or consisting of laminae [syn: {laminar}]
laminar
1: arranged in or consisting of laminae [syn: {laminal}]
laminar flow
1: nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae)
Laminaria
1: type genus of the family Laminariaceae: perennial brown kelps [syn: {genus Laminaria}]
Laminariaceae
1: large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters [syn: {family Laminariaceae}]
Laminariales
1: in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas [syn: {order Laminariales}]
laminate
1: a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers v 1: create laminate by putting together several thin sheets of a material 2: press or beat (metals) into thin sheets 3: cover with ...
laminated glass
1: glass made with plates of plastic or resin or other material between two sheets of glass to prevent shattering [syn: {safety glass}, {shatterproof glass}]
lamination
1: a layered structure 2: bonding thin sheets together
laminator
1: a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates)
laminectomy
1: surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae
laminitis
1: inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse [syn: {founder}]
Lamisil
1: an oral antifungal drug (trade name Lamisil) used to treat cases of fungal nail disease [syn: {terbinafine}]
Lamium
1: genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits [syn: {genus Lamium}]
Lamium album
1: European dead nettle with white flowers [syn: {white dead nettle}]
Lamium amplexicaule
1: Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers [syn: {henbit}]
lamivudine
1: a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is very effective in combination with zidovudine in treating AIDS and HIV [syn: {3TC}]
Lammas
1: commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England [syn: {Lammas Day}, {August 1}]
Lammas Day
1: commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England [syn: {Lammas}, {August 1}]
lammergeier
1: the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill [syn: {bearded vulture}, {lammergeyer}, {Gypaetus barbatus}]
lammergeyer
1: the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill [syn: {bearded vulture}, {lammergeier}, {Gypaetus barbatus}]
Lamna
1: a genus of Lamnidae [syn: {genus Lamna}]
Lamna nasus
1: voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific [syn: {porbeagle}]
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