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lacertiform - llike a lizard
laconize - be very spari;ng of words, said to have been characteristis of th;e Spartans My first Latin book told of Persians trying int intimidate the Spartans by saying: "When our archers shoot their arrows, the sun will be hdden." The Spartan general replied. "Good. We will fight in the shade."
lactose - milk sugar
laguna sustantivo femenino
1
(geografía) (en el interior) pool
(en la costa) lagoon
2
(en conocimientos, memoria) gap
lamellirostral [l??m?l?'r?str?l], lamellirostrate [l??m?l?'r?stre?t]
adjective (of ducks, geese, etc.) having a bill fringed with thin
plates on the inner edge for straining water from food
[ETYMOLOGY: 19th Century: from New Latin lamellirostris, from
lamella + rostrum beak]
laminiplantar
<ornithology> Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the
larks.
Origin: Lamina + L. Planta sole of the foot.
Source: Websters Dictionary
lampoon
n.
5Fr lampon < lampons, let us drink (refrain in a drinking song) < lamper, to guzzle: see LAMPAS16 a piece of satirical writing, usually attacking or ridiculing someone
vt.
to attack or ridicule by means of a lampoon
-SYN CARICATURE
lam[poon$er or lam[poon4ist
n.
lam[poon4er[y
n.
lanugo
n.
5L, down < lana, WOOL6 a soft, downy growth; esp.,
a) the soft, downy hair covering the human fetus b) the fine hair covering most of the human body
la[nu4gi[nous 73ji n!s8 or la[nu4gi[nose# 73ji nbs#8
adj.
Laocoön
5L < Gr Laokobn6 Gr. Myth. a priest of Troy who, with his two sons, is destroyed by two huge sea serpents after he warns the Trojans against the wooden horse
laparoscope
n.
5prec. + 3SCOPE6 an instrument introduced surgically into the abdomen for examining the abdominal or pelvic organs: used in diagnosis, female sterilization, etc.
lap#a[ro[scop$ic 73sk9p4ik8
adj.
lap#a[ros4co[py 73r9s4k! pc8
n.
laparotomy
n.,
pl. 3mies 5LAPARO3 + 3TOMY6 a surgical incision into the abdomen at the flanks or, less precisely, at any point
lapidary
n.,
pl. 3dar#ies 5ME lapidarie < LL lapidarius < L, of stones < lapis (gen. lapidis), a stone, akin to Gr lepas, ult.? < IE base *lep3: see LEPER6
1 a person who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones
2 the art of such a person
3 an expert in precious stones; collector of or dealer in gems: also lap$i[dar#ist
adj.
5L lapidarius6
1 of or connected with the art of cutting and engraving precious stones
2 engraved on stone
3 short, precise, and elegant, like an inscription on a monument
lapidocolous - living under a stone. When I was a boy, a cow pasture where we played had stone walls, which were made from sones left by the glacier. Most of them
were well rounded by the glacial activity, so that it was almost impossible to make a
wall that would not tumble down in places The walls served chiefly as a means of
clearing the fields so that they could be plowed. The freezing of the soil llifted the base
of the wall causing tumbles. Remember the Frost poem about having to mend walls
every spring, the owners of property on each side of the wall working together, so that
there was no chance to cheat by shirting wall to increase size of one owner's field.
The few flat stones were used for the top of the wall. When the flat rocks fell over, snakes commonly llived under them. A country phrase to imply someone was a snake
was to tell them to crawl back under their flat rock.
The point of all this: a erudite was of calling someone a snake would be to call them
lepidocolous.
larnax - a terra cotta chest, used as sepulchre in ancient Greece
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Bill -
What happens the day after tomorrow? We can only get 99 posts on a page...
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Maybe it'll go critical and start nuclear fission reaction.
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lamellirostral [l??m?l?'r?str?l], lamellirostrate [l??m?l?'r?stre?t]
adjective (of ducks, geese, etc.) having a bill fringed with thin
plates on the inner edge for straining water from food
[ETYMOLOGY: 19th Century: from New Latin lamellirostris, from
lamella + rostrum beak]
I was intrigued by the definition of "rostrum" as beak, since I only knew that word to mean a speaker's platform or desk.
Webster's say:
(Rom. Antiq.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
Thank you, Bill (again), I learned something!
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laguna sustantivo femenino
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(geografía) (en el interior) pool
(en la costa) lagoon
2
(en conocimientos, memoria) gap
Presumably a cognate of lacuna, a gap, usually in a manuscript, but also in a narrative or in one's memories.
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Dear Bingley: and my memory is full of lacunae.
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