leitmotiv
- n a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas)
leitneria floridana
- n very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood
leitneriaceae
- n coextensive with the genus Leitneria; commonly isolated in a distinct order
leland stanford
- n United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)
lem
- n a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back
lemaireocereus
- n tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit
lemaireocereus chichipe
- n tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit
lemaitre
- n Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966)
lemanderin
- n hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel
lemma
- n a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
- n the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae
- n the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry
lemming
- n any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution