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leydig cell
  • n  a cell in the testes that secretes the hormone testosterone
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lexeme
  • n  a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'
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lexical ambiguity
  • n  the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
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lexical disambiguation
  • n  disambiguation of the sense of a polysemantic word
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lexical entry
  • n  the entry in a dictionary of information about a word
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lexical meaning
  • n  the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express
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lexical semantics
  • n  the branch of semantics that studies the meanings and relations of words
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lexicalisation
  • n  the process of making a word to express a concept
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lexicalization
  • n  the process of making a word to express a concept
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lexicalized concept
  • n  a concept that is expressed by a word (in some particular language)
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lexicographer
  • n  a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language
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