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  • English Word Locomotivity Definition The power of changing place.
  • English Word Locomotor Definition Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
  • English Word Loculament Definition The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
  • English Word Locular Definition Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
  • English Word Loculate Definition Divided into compartments.
  • English Word Locule Definition A little hollow; a loculus.
  • English Word Loculi Definition of Loculus
  • English Word Loculicidal Definition Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.
  • English Word Loculose Definition Alt. of Loculous
  • English Word Loculous Definition Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.
  • English Word Loculus Definition One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
  • English Word Loculus Definition One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
  • English Word Locum tenens Definition A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.
  • English Word Locus Definition A place; a locality.
  • English Word Locus Definition The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.
  • English Word Locust Definition Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.
  • English Word Locust Definition The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).
  • English Word Locust tree Definition A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.
  • English Word Locusta Definition The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.
  • English Word Locustella Definition The European cricket warbler.
  • English Word Locustic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
  • English Word Locusting Definition Swarming and devastating like locusts.
  • English Word Locution Definition Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
  • English Word Locutory Definition A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
  • English Word Lodde Definition The capelin.
  • English Word Lode Definition A water course or way; a reach of water.
  • English Word Lode Definition A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.
  • English Word Lode-ship Definition An old name for a pilot boat.
  • English Word Lodemanage Definition Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman.
  • English Word Lodemanage Definition Pilotage.