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Lactobacillus
- noun - a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk)
Ladder-Backed
- - Having horizontal stripes on the back, reminiscent of a ladder; -- used of birds; as, a ladder-backed woodpecker.
Lady's Finger
- - The kidney vetch, Anthyllis vulneraria; called also lady's fingers.
Lady's Mantle
- - A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European Alchemilla vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
Lady's-Finger
- noun - tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
Laemodipodous
- - Of or pertaining to the Laemodipoda.
Laevorotatory
- - (of a compound) having the property of rotating the plane of a polarized light ray to the left, i.e. anticlockwise facing the oncoming radiation.
- Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.
Lagarostrobus
- noun - genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium
Lagerstroemia
- noun - shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers
Lagophthalmos
- noun - abnormal condition in which an eye cannot close completely