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lemaireocereus
  • n  tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit
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lemaireocereus chichipe
  • n  tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit
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lemaitre
  • n  Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966)
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lemanderin
  • n  hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel
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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
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lemming
  • n  any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution
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lemmus lemmus
  • n  notable for mass migrations even into the sea where many drown
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lemna
  • n  minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root
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lemna minor
  • n  of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia
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lemna trisulca
  • n  cosmopolitan in temperate regions except North America
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lemniscus
  • n  a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
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lemnos
  • n  a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties
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