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1: West Indian tree yielding la hard dark born wood resembling mahogany in texture and value [syn: {sabicu}]

1: loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive [syn: {genus Lysimachia}]

1: of North America [syn: {fringed loosestrife}]

1: a variety of the loosestrife herb [syn: {gooseneck loosestrife}]

1: trailing European evergreen with yellow flowers [syn: {yellow pimpernel}]

1: a loosestrife vine [syn: {moneywort}, {creeping Jenny}, {creeping Charlie}]

1: common North American yellow-flowered plant [syn: {whorled loosestrife}]

1: North American plant with spikes of yellow flowers, found in wet places [syn: {swamp candles}]

1: frequently considered a weed; Europe and Asia [syn: {yellow loosestrife}, {garden loosestrife}]

1: Macedonian general under Alexander the Great; with Seleucus he defeated Antigonus and Demetrius at the battle of Ipsus (circa 355-281 BC)

1: any substance (such as an antibody) or agent that can cause lysis

1: an essential amino acid found in proteins; occurs especially in gelatin and casein

1: a disorder in which a lack of certain enzymes makes it impossible to digest the amino acid lysine

1: an inborn error of metabolism in which the lack of certain enzymes leads to an inability to metabolize the amino acid lysine; characterized by muscular weakness and mental retardation

1: Greek sculptor (4th century BC)

1: recuperation in which the symptoms of an acute disease gradually subside 2: (biochemistry) dissolution or destruction of cells such as blood cells or bacteria [also: {lyses} (pl)]

1: of or relating to lysogeny 2: capable of producing or undergoing lysis

1: the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material; "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome...

1: the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome [syn: {lysogenization}]

1: the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome [syn: {lysogenisation}]

1: become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium)

1: the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material; "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome...

1: a clear oily brown solution of cresols in soap; used as an antiseptic and disinfectant

1: an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)

1: an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria [syn: {muramidase}]

1: an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain [syn: {rabies}, {hydrophobia...

1: a neurotropic nonarbovirus of the family Rhabdoviridae that causes rabies

1: herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers [syn: {family Lythraceae}, {loosestrife family}]

1: loosestrife [syn: {genus Lythrum}]

1: annual with small solitary pink flowers; originally of Europe but widely naturalized in moist areas [syn: {grass poly}, {hyssop loosestrife}]

1: marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers; originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States [syn: {purple loosestrife}, {spiked loosestrife}]

{lytta}

1: English writer of historical romances (1803-1873) [syn: {First Baron Lytton}, {Bulwer-Lytton}, {Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton}]

1: English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932) [syn: {Strachey}, {Giles Lytton Strachey}]