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Lawsonia
- - An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.
Lecanora
- noun - any lichen of the genus Lecanora; some used in dyeing; some used for food
Legatura
- - A tie or brace; a syncopation.
Leoncita
- noun - small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail
Leucaena
- noun - small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia
Leukemia
- noun - malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer
Levodopa
- noun - the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease
Li Bella
- unknown - A small balance.
Liakoura
- noun - (Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry; "Liakoura is the modern name of Mount Parnassus"
Limacina
- - A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.