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- English Word Leptocardian Definition Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia.
- English Word Leptocardian Definition One of the Leptocardia.
- English Word Leptodactyl Definition A bird or other animal having slender toes.
- English Word Leptodactylous Definition Having slender toes.
- English Word Leptology Definition A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.
- English Word Leptomeningitis Definition Inflammation of the pia mater or of the arachnoid membrane.
- English Word Leptorhine Definition Having the nose narrow; -- said esp. of the skull. Opposed to platyrhine.
- English Word Leptostraca Definition An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms.
- English Word Leptothrix Definition A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.
- English Word Leptothrix Definition Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals.
- English Word Leptus Definition The six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; -- sometimes used as a generic name. See Harvest mite, under Harvest.
- English Word Leptynite Definition See Granulite.
- English Word Lere Definition Learning; lesson; lore.
- English Word Lere Definition To learn; to teach.
- English Word Lere Definition Empty.
- English Word Lere Definition Flesh; skin.
- English Word Lered Definition Learned.
- English Word Lernaea Definition A Linnaean genus of parasitic Entomostraca, -- the same as the family Lernaeidae.
- English Word Lernaeacea Definition A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Lernean Definition One of a family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.
- English Word Lerot Definition A small European rodent (Eliomys nitela), allied to the dormouse.
- English Word Les Definition A leash.
- English Word Lesbian Definition Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.
- English Word Lese Definition To lose.
- English Word Lese-majesty Definition See Leze majesty.
- English Word Lesion Definition A hurt; an injury.
- English Word Lesion Definition Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.
- English Word Lesion Definition Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
- English Word Less Definition Unless.
- English Word Less Definition Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before.