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lego
  • n  (trademark) a child's plastic construction set for making mechanical models
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lego set
  • n  (trademark) a child's plastic construction set for making mechanical models
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legs
  • n  staying power
    that old Broadway play really has legs
  • n  a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
  • n  a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
  • n  one of the supports for a piece of furniture
  • n  a part of a forked or branching shape
  • n  the limb of an animal used for food
  • n  a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
  • n  a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
  • n  (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
  • n  a section or portion of a journey or course
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legume
  • n  an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
  • n  the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case
  • n  the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
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legume family
  • n  a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
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leguminosae
  • n  a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
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leguminous plant
  • n  an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
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lehigh river
  • n  a river in eastern Pennsylvania that flows southeast into the Delaware River
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lei
  • n  flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
  • n  the basic unit of money in Moldova
  • n  the basic unit of money in Romania
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leibnitz
  • n  German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
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leibniz
  • n  German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
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leicester
  • n  a largely agricultural county in central England
  • n  an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement
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leicestershire
  • n  a largely agricultural county in central England
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leichtlin's camas
  • n  camas found to the west of Cascade Mountains
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leiden
  • n  a city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620
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leiden jar
  • n  an electrostatic capacitor of historical interest
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