Name Report For First Name LONA:
LONA
First name LONA's origin is Other. LONA means "solitary". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LONA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lona.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with LONA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LONA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LONA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LONA AS A WHOLE:
abellona ilona allona alona caylona halona wilona lonato xylona solonaNAMES RHYMING WITH LONA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ona) - Names That Ends with ona:
epona cairistiona catriona desmona kekona keona kona dona mona simona winona ivona napona alastriona aldona anemona avarona briona brona carona deona devona diona ejona fiona gliona kiona leona mairona ona oona ramona riona rona saxona senona wenona yona iliona desdemona iona albiona rimona tivona tziyona yarkonaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (na) - Names That Ends with na:
abena adanna asmina ayana crispina fana hasana hasina makena tarana uchenna urenna zahina zena zwena alhena hana rihana sana' thana' aitana agana inina nena raina bozena jana jirina gelsomina fukayna levina jaakkina jaana katariina durandana falerina methena nanna ghleanna kyna armina johanna katharina luana aegina aetna akilina alcina aretina athena celena corinna echidna filipinaNAMES RHYMING WITH LONA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lon) - Names That Begins with lon:
lon lonell loni lonn lonna lonnell lonnie lono lonyn lonzoRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (lo) - Names That Begins with lo:
loc lochlain lochlann locke locklyn lockwood locrine lodema lodima lodyma loe loefel logan logen logestilla loghan logistilla lohengrin lohoot loiyan lojza lokelani lokni lola lola-jo loleta lolita lolitta lomahongva loman lomasi lomsky lomy lootah lora lorah loraina loraine loralee loralei loran lorance loranna lorant lorayne lorcan lorda lore loredana loreen loreene lorelai lorelei lorelie loren lorena lorence lorencz lorene lorenia lorenna lorenz lorenza lorenzo loreta loretta lorette lori loria lorian loriana loriann lorianne loriel lorilee lorilynn lorimar lorimer lorin lorinda lorineus loring loris lorita loritz lorna lorne lornell lorraina lorraineNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LONA:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'a':
labreshia lacina lacramioara lada laetitia lahela laila laina lajila lakeisha lakesha lakeshia lakiesha lakisha lakishia lakya lala lalia lalima lama lamba lamia lampetia lana lanaia landa landra landrada lanna lansa laodamia laqueta laquisha lara lareina larena laria larina larissa larunda lashea latasha lateefa lateisha latesha latia laticia latisha latoya laura laurana laurena laurencia laurentia lauretta laurinda laurita lavena laverna lavernia lavina lavinia layla lea leala lealia leana leandra leanna lebna lecia leda leela leena leesa legaya leia leianna leila leilana leira leisha leitha lela lelia lema lemuela lena lenmana lenora lenuta leoda leola leoma leonarda leonda leondra leondrea leonela leonoraEnglish Words Rhyming LONA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LONA AS A WHOLE:
| bellona | noun (n.) The goddess of war. |
| malonate | adjective (a.) At salt of malonic acid. |
| myelonal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the myelon; as, the myelonal, or spinal, nerves. |
| oculonasal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic. |
| polonaise | noun (n.) The Polish language. |
| noun (n.) An article of dress for women, consisting of a body and an outer skirt in one piece. | |
| noun (n.) A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland. |
| ulonata | noun (n. pl.) A division of insects nearly equivalent to the true Orthoptera. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LONA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ona) - English Words That Ends with ona:
| anona | noun (n.) A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceae, including the soursop. |
| apneumona | noun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes. |
| cinchona | noun (n.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. |
| noun (n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark. |
| corona | noun (n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. |
| noun (n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column. | |
| noun (n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown. | |
| noun (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin. | |
| noun (n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon. | |
| noun (n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil. | |
| noun (n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ. | |
| noun (n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon. | |
| noun (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle. | |
| noun (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis. | |
| noun (n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold. |
| cremona | noun (n.) A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy. |
| dipneumona | noun (n. pl.) A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs. |
| gymnophiona | noun (n. pl.) An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha. |
| mona | noun (n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches. |
| monopneumona | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Dipnoi, including the Ceratodus. |
| persona | noun (n.) Same as Person, n., 8. |
| pomona | noun (n.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees. |
| tetraneumona | noun (n. pl.) A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale. |
| trona | noun (n.) A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum. |
| zircona | noun (n.) Zirconia. |
| zona | noun (n.) A zone or band; a layer. |
| wenona | noun (n.) A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LONA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lon) - Words That Begins with lon:
| lond | noun (n.) Land. |
| london | noun (n.) The capital city of England. |
| londoner | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of London. |
| londonism | noun (n.) A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London. |
| lone | noun (n.) A lane. See Loanin. |
| adjective (a.) Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher. | |
| adjective (a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. | |
| adjective (a.) Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. | |
| adjective (a.) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary. |
| loneliness | noun (n.) The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion. |
| noun (n.) The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road. | |
| noun (n.) Love of retirement; disposition to solitude. | |
| noun (n.) A feeling of depression resulting from being alone. |
| loneness | noun (n.) Solitude; seclusion. |
| long | noun (n.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. |
| noun (n.) A long sound, syllable, or vowel. | |
| noun (n.) The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it. | |
| adjective (a.) To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for. | |
| adjective (a.) To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. | |
| adjective (a.) Having a supply of stocks or goods; prepared for, or depending for a profit upon, advance in prices; as, long of cotton. Hence, the phrases: to be, or go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the market, to hold products or securities for a rise in price, esp. when bought on a margin. | |
| superlative (superl.) Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide. | |
| superlative (superl.) Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book. | |
| superlative (superl.) Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching. | |
| superlative (superl.) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. | |
| superlative (superl.) Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc. | |
| superlative (superl.) Far-reaching; extensive. | |
| superlative (superl.) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 22, 30. | |
| adverb (adv.) To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line. | |
| adverb (adv.) To a great extent in time; during a long time. | |
| adverb (adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest. | |
| adverb (adv.) Through the whole extent or duration. | |
| adverb (adv.) Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone? | |
| prep (prep.) By means of; by the fault of; because of. |
| longing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Long |
| noun (n.) An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. |
| longan | noun (n.) A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan). |
| longanimity | noun (n.) Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience. |
| longbeak | noun (n.) The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher. |
| longboat | noun (n.) Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel. |
| longbow | noun (n.) The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. |
| longe | noun (n.) A thrust. See Lunge. |
| noun (n.) The training ground for a horse. | |
| noun (n.) Same as 4th Lunge. |
| longer | noun (n.) One who longs for anything. |
| longeval | adjective (a.) Long-loved; longevous. |
| longevity | noun (n.) Long duration of life; length of life. |
| longevous | adjective (a.) Living a long time; of great age. |
| longhand | noun (n.) The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand. |
| longheaded | adjective (a.) Having unusual foresight or sagacity. |
| longhorn | noun (n.) A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned. |
| longicorn | noun (n.) One of the Longicornia. |
| adjective (a.) Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia. |
| longicornia | noun (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust. |
| longilateral | adjective (a.) Having long sides especially, having the form of a long parallelogram. |
| longiloquence | noun (n.) Long-windedness. |
| longimanous | adjective (a.) Having long hands. |
| longimetry | noun (n.) The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. |
| longinquity | noun (n.) Greatness of distance; remoteness. |
| longipalp | noun (n.) One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi. |
| longipennate | adjective (a.) Having long wings, or quills. |
| longipennes | noun (n. pl.) A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc. |
| longipennine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate. |
| longiroster | noun (n.) One of the Longirostres. |
| longirostral | adjective (a.) Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres. |
| longirostres | noun (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division. |
| (pl. ) of Longiroster |
| longish | adjective (a.) Somewhat long; moderately long. |
| longitude | noun (n.) Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense. |
| noun (n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich. | |
| noun (n.) The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is 79¡. |
| longitudinal | noun (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance. | |
| adjective (a.) Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body. |
| longlegs | noun (n.) A daddy longlegs. |
| longness | noun (n.) Length. |
| longnose | noun (n.) The European garfish. |
| longshanks | noun (n.) The stilt. |
| longshore | adjective (a.) Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. |
| longshoreman | noun (n.) One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels. |
| longsome | adjective (a.) Extended in length; tiresome. |
| longspun | adjective (a.) Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. |
| longspur | noun (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States. |
| longtail | noun (n.) An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog. |
| longulite | noun (n.) A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LONA:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'a':
| labia | noun (n. pl.) See Labium. |
| (pl. ) of Labium |
| labyrinthodonta | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala. |
| lacerta | noun (n.) A fathom. |
| noun (n.) A genus of lizards. See Lizard. | |
| noun (n.) The Lizard, a northern constellation. |
| lacertilia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards. |
| lacinia | noun (n.) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers. |
| noun (n.) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf. | |
| noun (n.) The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects. |
| lacinula | noun (n.) A diminutive lacinia. |
| lactuca | noun (n.) A genus of composite herbs, several of which are cultivated foe salad; lettuce. |
| lacuna | noun (n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. |
| noun (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane. |
| laemodipoda | noun (n. pl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples. |
| lagena | noun (n.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians. |
| lagemorpha | noun (n. pl.) A group of rodents, including the hares. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata. |
| lagophthalmia | noun (n.) Alt. of Lagophthalmos |
| lama | noun (n.) See Llama. |
| noun (n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. |
| lambda | noun (n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l. |
| noun (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. |
| lamella | noun (n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed. |
| lamellibranchia | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Lamellibranchiata |
| lamellibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc. |
| lamellicornia | noun (n. pl.) A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes. |
| lametta | noun (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass. |
| lamia | noun (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch. |
| lamina | noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals. |
| noun (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. | |
| noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather. |
| laminaria | noun (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp. |
| lamnunguia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Hyracoidea. |
| langaha | noun (n.) A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade. |
| langya | noun (n.) One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes. |
| larva | noun (n.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc. |
| noun (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape. |
| larvalia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia. |
| latakia | noun (n.) A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea. |
| latria | noun (n.) The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints. |
| laura | noun (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. |
| lava | noun (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States. |
| lavolta | noun (n.) An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. |
| lawsonia | noun (n.) 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. |
| lea | noun (n.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay. |
| noun (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. | |
| noun (n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. |
| lecama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
| lectica | noun (n.) A kind of litter or portable couch. |
| legatura | noun (n.) A tie or brace; a syncopation. |
| leipoa | noun (n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant. |
| lemma | noun (n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic. |
| lemniscata | noun (n.) Alt. of Lemniscate |
| lemuria | noun (n.) A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant. |
| lemuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species. |
| lena | noun (n.) A procuress. |
| lenticula | noun (n.) A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle. |
| noun (n.) A lens of small size. | |
| noun (n.) A lenticel. |
| lepidoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. |
| lepidosauria | noun (n. pl.) A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata. |
| lepisma | noun (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug. |
| lepra | noun (n.) Leprosy. |
| leptocardia | noun (n. pl.) The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. |
| leptostraca | noun (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms. |
| lernaea | noun (n.) A Linnaean genus of parasitic Entomostraca, -- the same as the family Lernaeidae. |
| lernaeacea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| leuchaemia | noun (n.) See Leucocythaemia. |
| leucocythaemia | noun (n.) Alt. of Leucocythemia |
| leucocythemia | noun (n.) A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia. |
| leucoma | noun (n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo. |
| leucorrhoea | noun (n.) A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. |
| leukaemia | noun (n.) Leucocythaemia. |
| levana | noun (n.) A goddess who protected newborn infants. |
| liana | noun (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. |
| li bella | noun (n.) A small balance. |
| noun (n.) A level, or leveling instrument. |
| libra | noun (n.) The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc. |
| noun (n.) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio. |
| ligula | noun (n.) See Ligule. |
| noun (n.) The central process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees. | |
| noun (n.) A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium. |
| lima | noun (n.) The capital city of Peru, in South America. |
| limacina | noun (n.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales. |
| lim naea | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail. |
| limuloidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura. |
| lindia | noun (n.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. |
| linga | noun (n.) Alt. of Lingam |
| lingua | noun (n.) A tongue. |
| noun (n.) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue. |
| linguatulida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina. |
| linguatulina | noun (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida. |
| lingula | noun (n.) A tonguelike process or part. |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| lipaemia | noun (n.) A condition in which fat occurs in the blood. |
| lipocephala | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. |
| lipoma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue. |
| lira | noun (n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc. |
| lirella | noun (n.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens. |
| lissencephala | noun (n. pl.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. |
| lithaemia | noun (n.) A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood. |
| lithia | noun (n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium. |
| littorina | noun (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle. |
| liza | noun (n.) The American white mullet (Mugil curema). |
| llama | noun (n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes. |
| lobelia | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers. |
| lobosa | noun (n. pl.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba. |
| lochia | noun (n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth. |
| locusta | noun (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. |
| locustella | noun (n.) The European cricket warbler. |
| loggia | noun (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room. |
| loma | noun (n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap. |
| lophopoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Phylactolemata. |
| lorcha | noun (n.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. |
| lorica | noun (n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like. |
| noun (n.) Lute for protecting vessels from the fire. | |
| noun (n.) The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer. |
| loricata | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos. |
| noun (n. pl.) The crocodilia. |
| lucernaria | noun (n.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel. |
| lucernarida | noun (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa. |
| noun (n. pl.) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora. |
| lucuma | noun (n.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits. |
| lumachella | noun (n.) A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections. |
| luna | noun (n.) The moon. |
| noun (n.) Silver. |
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