Name Report For First Name LEMA:
LEMA
First name LEMA's origin is African. LEMA means "amharic of ethiopia name meaning "cultivated, developed."". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LEMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lema.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with LEMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LEMA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LEMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LEMA AS A WHOLE:
clematis alemannus telemachus coleman colemann leman stilleman zulemaNAMES RHYMING WITH LEMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ema) - Names That Ends with ema:
neema rehema thema vema tessema ema menachema winema yarema baseema lodema saleema reema kareema haleemaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
adama fatuma halima ifeoma mariama salama esma alima asima huma lama na'ima numa ulima mukarramma selma jurma aselma erma cyma desma neoma thelma kalama acima jemima carma kama ahisma karma padma ruma sarama sharama uma gulielma massima roma donoma kimama poloma shima adima juma usama chuma jorma soma adharma algoma alma aluma arama delma dharma dreama elma emma eskama faoiltiama fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma kuwanyauma lalima lodima lodyma myma nadhima nakoma nehama okimma oma paloma purisima salma saloma selima sima sumaNAMES RHYMING WITH LEMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lem) - Names That Begins with lem:
lemuel lemuelaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (le) - Names That Begins with le:
lea lea-que leachlainn leah leal leala lealia leaman leamhnach lean leana leander leandra leandre leandro leane leanian leann leanna leannan leanne lear leary leathan leathlobhair leax leb lebna lecia leda lee leeann leeanne leela leeland leena leeroy leesa legarre legaya legget leia leianna leicester leigb leigh leigh-ann leighanne leighton leiko leil leila leilah leilana leilani leilanie leilany leiloni leira leisha leith leitha leitis leksi lela leland lele lelia len lena lenae lenard lenci lendall lendell lenee leng lenmana lenn lennard lennell lennie lenno lennon lennox lenny lenora lenore lenuta leo leoc leocadie leod leoda leodegan leodegrance leodegraunce leofNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEMA:
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 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 leola leoma leona leonarda leonda leondra leondrea leonela leonora leontina leopolda leopoldina leota leppa lera leta letha lethia letitia letizia letya leucothea leucothia leunta levia levina levyna lewanna lexandra lexina leya leyla leza lia liana lianna licia lidia liealiaEnglish Words Rhyming LEMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LEMA AS A WHOLE:
| alemannic | noun (n.) The language of the Alemanni. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes. |
| allemande | noun (n.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel. |
| noun (n.) A figure in dancing. |
| allemannic | adjective (a.) See Alemannic. |
| candlemas | noun (n.) The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day. |
| clematis | noun (n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower. |
| colemanite | noun (n.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California. |
| emblematic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Emblematical |
| emblematical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity. |
| emblematist | noun (n.) A writer or inventor of emblems. |
| emblematizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblematize |
| epiblema | noun (n.) The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids. |
| fugleman | noun (n.) A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing. |
| noun (n.) Hence, one who leads the way. |
| gabelleman | noun (n.) A gabeler. |
| gentleman | noun (n.) A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman. |
| noun (n.) One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man. | |
| noun (n.) One who bears arms, but has no title. | |
| noun (n.) The servant of a man of rank. | |
| noun (n.) A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc. |
| gentlemanhood | noun (n.) The qualities or condition of a gentleman. |
| gentlemanlike | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gentlemanly |
| gentlemanly | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well-behaved; courteous; polite. |
| gentlemanliness | noun (n.) The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners. |
| gentlemanship | noun (n.) The carriage or quality of a gentleman. |
| leman | noun (n.) A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense. |
| martlemas | noun (n.) See Martinmas. |
| middleman | noun (n.) An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry. |
| noun (n.) A person of intermediate rank; a commoner. | |
| noun (n.) The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. |
| nobleman | noun (n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent. |
| phylactolema | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Phylactolemata |
| phylactolemata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Phylactolaema. |
| polemarch | noun (n.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer. |
| problematic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Problematical |
| problematical | adjective (a.) Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. |
| problematist | noun (n.) One who proposes problems. |
| ptolemaic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer. |
| ptolemaist | noun (n.) One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy. |
| rifleman | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a rifle. |
| (pl. ) of Rifleman |
| sickleman | noun (n.) One who uses a sickle; a reaper. |
| stableman | noun (n.) A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler. |
| stalemate | noun (n.) The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved. |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand. |
| tableman | noun (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. |
| ulema | noun (n.) A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice. |
| noun (n.) A college or body composed of the hierarchy (the imams, muftis, and cadis). That of Turkey alone now has political power; its head is the sheik ul Islam. |
| whaleman | noun (n.) A man employed in the whale fishery. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ema) - English Words That Ends with ema:
| anathema | noun (n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. |
| noun (n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. | |
| noun (n.) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. |
| bema | noun (n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. |
| noun (n.) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel. | |
| noun (n.) Erroneously: A pulpit. |
| blastema | noun (n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows. |
| cytoblastema | noun (n.) See Protoplasm. |
| diastema | noun (n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw. |
| ecphonema | noun (n.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle. |
| eczema | noun (n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum. |
| edema | noun (n.) Same as oedema. |
| emphysema | noun (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue. |
| empyema | noun (n.) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. |
| enema | noun (n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. |
| epichirema | noun (n.) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner. |
| epiphonema | noun (n.) An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse. |
| epithema | noun (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds. |
| erythema | noun (n.) A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size. |
| exanthema | noun (n.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. |
| gymnolaema | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Gymnolaemata |
| helicotrema | noun (n.) The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear. |
| hyalonema | noun (n.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope. |
| myxoedema | noun (n.) A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland. |
| nototrema | noun (n.) The pouched, or marsupial, frog of South America. |
| oedema | noun (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. |
| phylactolaema | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Phylactolaemata |
| protonema | noun (n.) The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed. |
| schema | noun (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect. |
| sclerema | noun (n.) Induration of the cellular tissue. |
| seriema | noun (n.) A large South American bird (Dicholophus, / Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama. |
| sorema | noun (n.) A heap of carpels belonging to one flower. |
| uzema | noun (n.) A Burman measure of twelve miles. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lem) - Words That Begins with lem:
| leme | noun (n.) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. |
| verb (v. i.) To shine. |
| 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. |
| lemman | noun (n.) A leman. |
| lemming | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres. |
| lemnian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos. |
| lemniscata | noun (n.) Alt. of Lemniscate |
| lemniscate | noun (n.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center. |
| lemniscus | noun (n.) One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala. |
| lemon | noun (n.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet. |
| noun (n.) The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree. |
| lemonade | noun (n.) A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened. |
| lemur | noun (n.) One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo. |
| lemures | noun (n. pl.) Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters. |
| 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. |
| lemurid | noun (a. & n.) Same as Lemuroid. |
| lemuridous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lemurine |
| lemurine | adjective (a.) Lemuroid. |
| lemuroid | noun (n.) One of the Lemuroidea. |
| adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea. |
| lemuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEMA:
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| lunula | noun (n.) Same as Lunule. |
| lupercalia | noun (n. pl.) A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan. |
| lycanthropia | noun (n.) See Lycanthropy, 2. |
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