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lessening
  • n  a change downward
  • v  decrease in size, extent, or range
  • v  make smaller
  • v  wear off or die down
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lesseps
  • n  French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
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lesser anteater
  • n  small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America
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lesser antilles
  • n  a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
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lesser bullrush
  • n  reed maces of America, Europe, North Africa, Asia
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lesser burdock
  • n  a plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; found in most of Europe and North Africa
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lesser butterfly orchid
  • n  south European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria
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lesser calamint
  • n  low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to Great Britain; naturalized in United States
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lesser celandine
  • n  perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles
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lesser centaury
  • n  common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes
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lesser duckweed
  • n  of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia
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lesser galangal
  • n  Chinese perennial with pyramidal racemes of white flowers and pungent aromatic roots used medicinally and as flavoring
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lesser hemlock
  • n  European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten
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