lespedeza
- n shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States
lespedeza bicolor
- n Asian shrub having conspicuous racemose rose-purple flowers widely used as an ornamental and in erosion control and as a source of feed for wild birds
lespedeza cuneata
- n perennial widely planted as for forage and as hay crop especially on poor land
lespedeza sericea
- n perennial widely planted as for forage and as hay crop especially on poor land
lespedeza stipulacea
- n annual native to Korea but widely cultivated for forage and hay in hot dry regions
lespedeza striata
- n an annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States
lessening
- n a change downward
- v decrease in size, extent, or range
- v make smaller
- v wear off or die down
lesseps
- n French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
lesser anteater
- n small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America
lesser antilles
- n a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
lesser burdock
- n a plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; found in most of Europe and North Africa
lesser butterfly orchid
- n south European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria