lamb
- n young sheep
- n English essayist (1775-1834)
- n a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters)
- n a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)
- n the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food
- v give birth to a lamb
the ewe lambed
lamb's-quarters
- n common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
- n leaves collected from the wild
lamb's lettuce
- n widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed
lambda
- n the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet
- n the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull
lambda hyperon
- n an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1
lambda particle
- n an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1
lambdacism
- n speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l'
lambert
- n a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
- n English composer and conductor (1905-1951)
lambert-eaton syndrome
- n a disease seen in patients with lung cancer and characterized by weakness and fatigue of hip and thigh muscles and an aching back; caused by antibodies directed against the neuromuscular junctions
lambertia formosa
- n erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar
lambis
- n scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of the eastern hemisphere