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Lemma
- noun - a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
- the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry
- the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae
Lemna
- noun - minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root
Lemon
- noun - a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons
- a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit
- a strong yellow color
- an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
- yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
Lemur
- noun - large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails
Liman
- noun - a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river
Limax
- noun - a genus of Limacidae
Limbi
- noun - a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure
Limbo
- noun - a Caribbean dance where participants lean under a bar whilst leaning backwards.
- (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
- an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
- the state of being disregarded or forgotten
Limbs
- noun - (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
- any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"
- either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow"
- one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
- the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant"
Limed
- verb - cover with lime so as to induce growth; "lime the lawn"
- spread birdlime on branches to catch birds