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lagger
  • n  someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
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lagging
  • n  used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat
  • v  hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  • v  lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  • v  throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
  • v  cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
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lagniappe
  • n  a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase)
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lagodon rhomboides
  • n  similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
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lagomorph
  • n  relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing
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lagomorpha
  • n  rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia
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lagoon
  • n  a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral
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lagophthalmos
  • n  abnormal condition in which an eye cannot close completely
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lagopus scoticus
  • n  reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain
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lagos
  • n  chief port and economic center of Nigeria; located in southwestern Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea; former capital of Nigeria
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lagostomus maximus
  • n  gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas
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laguna
  • n  a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral
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laguncularia racemosa
  • n  shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin
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