3. A long, slender variety of the potato.
4. (Zoöl.) One of the branchiæ of the lobster.
Lady's garters
(La"dy's gar"ters) (Bot.) Ribbon grass.
Lady's hair
(La"dy's hair") (Bot.) A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.
Ladyship
(La"dy*ship) n. The rank or position of a lady; — given as a title (preceded by her or your).
Your ladyship shall observe their gravity.
B. Jonson. Lady's laces
(La"dy's la"ces) (Bot.) A slender climbing plant; dodder.
Lady's looking-glass
(La"dy's look"ing-glass`) (Bot.) See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.
Lady's mantle
(La"dy's man"tle) (Bot.) A genus of rosaceous herbs esp. the European A. vulgaris,
which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
Lady's seal
(La"dy's seal") (Bot.) (a) The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). (b)
The black bryony
Lady's slipper
(La"dy's slip"per) (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum
of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam
Lady's smock
(La"dy's smock") (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.
Lady's thimble
(La"dy's thim"ble) (Bot.) The harebell.
Lady's thumb
(La"dy's thumb") (Bot.) An annual weed having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the
middle.
Lady's traces
(La"dy's tra"ces La"dies' tress"es) (Bot.) A name given to several species of the orchidaceous
genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble
braided hair.
Lælaps
(||Læ"laps) n. [NL., fr. Gr. a dark, furious storm.] (Paleon.) A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian
reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and
are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
Laemmergeyer
(Laem"mer*gey`er) n. (Zoöl.) See Lammergeir.
Læmodipod
(Læ*mod"i*pod) n. (Zoöl.) One of the Læmodipoda.
Læmodipoda
(||Læ`mo*dip"o*da) n. pl. [NL., from Gr. throat + twice + foot.] (Zoöl.) A division of amphipod
Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs.
The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.
Læmodipodous
(Læ`mo*dip"o*dous) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Læmodipoda.
Lætere Sunday
(Læ*te"re Sun"day) The fourth Sunday of Lent; — so named from the Latin word Lætare the
first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.
Lævigate
(Læv"i*gate) a. [See Levigate.] (Biol.) Having a smooth surface, as if polished.
Lævo-
(Læ"vo-) A prefix. See Levo.
