Nouns starting with L

• London plane — Noun – English ～ very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree
• long plane — Noun – English ～ a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together
• lead plant — Noun – English ～ shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore
• lentil plant — Noun – English ～ widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder
• leopard plant — Noun – English ～ any of various plants of temperate Eurasia; grown for their yellow flowers and handsome foliage
• lipstick plant — Noun – English ～ epiphyte or creeping on rocks; Malaysian plant having somewhat fleshy leaves and bright red flowers
• lithophytic plant — Noun – English ～ plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere
• ligneous plant — Noun – English ～ a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems
• liliaceous plant — Noun – English ～ plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber
• lima bean plant — Noun – English ～ bush or tall-growing bean plant having large flat edible seeds
• leguminous plant — Noun – English ～ an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
• looking-glass plant — Noun – English ～ small tree of coastal regions of Old World tropics whose leaves are silvery beneath
• lobster plant — Noun – English ～ tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
• lichen planus — Noun – English ～ an eruption of shiny flat-topped purplish (usually itchy) papules on the wrist and forearms and thighs
• lath and plaster — Noun – English ～ a building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster
• La Plata — Noun – English ～ an estuary between Argentina and Uruguay
• L-plate — Noun – English ～ a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner
• license plate — Noun – English ～ a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number
• Laurentian Plateau — Noun – English ～ a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
• Layia platyglossa — Noun – English ～ California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white

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