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lyonia
  • n  evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya
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lyonia ligustrina
  • n  deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers
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lyonia lucida
  • n  showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel
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lyonia mariana
  • n  deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock
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lyonnais
  • n  a former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes
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lyonnaise sauce
  • n  brown sauce with sauteed chopped onions and parsley and dry white wine or vinegar
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lyons
  • n  a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon
  • n  the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church
  • n  the council of the Western Church in 1245 that excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and planned a new crusade against the Holy Land
  • n  a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon
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