leontief
- n United States economist (born in Russia) who devised an input-output method of economic analysis (1906-1999)
leontocebus rosalia
- n golden South American monkey with long soft hair forming a mane
leontodon autumnalis
- n fall-blooming European herb with a yellow flower; naturalized in the United States
leontopodium alpinum
- n alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts
leonurus cardiaca
- n bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers
leopard
- n the pelt of a leopard
- n large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots
leopard's-bane
- n any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads