lymphatic vessel
— Noun
– English
～ a vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually added to the venous blood circulation
life vest
— Noun
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～ life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design
Louis VI
— Noun
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～ king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137)
Louis Victor de Broglie
— Noun
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～ French nuclear physicist who generalized the wave-particle duality by proposing that particles of matter exhibit wavelike properties (1892-1987)
Lake Victoria
— Noun
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～ the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River
Louis VII
— Noun
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～ king of France who led the unsuccessful Second Crusade and fought frequent wars with Henry II of England (1120-1180)
Louis VIII
— Noun
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～ king of France who increased the power of the Crown over the feudal lords (1187-1226)
Luxembourg-Ville
— Noun
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～ the capital and largest city of Luxembourg
Leonardo da Vinci
— Noun
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～ Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
lace-flower vine
— Noun
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～ low-growing creeping perennial of Central America having deeply fringed white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Episcia
love vine
— Noun
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～ leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax
long-spurred violet
— Noun
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～ violet of eastern North America having lilac-purple flowers with a long slender spur
Lycopus virginicus
— Noun
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～ a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States
Lacerta viridis
— Noun
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～ a common Eurasian lizard about a foot long
Lassa virus
— Noun
– English
～ the RNA virus that causes Lassa fever
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
— Noun
– English
～ the RNA virus that causes lymphocytic choriomeningitis; infects mice and monkeys and dogs and guinea pigs and human beings
Luchino Visconti
— Noun
– English
～ Italian filmmaker (1906-1976)
line of vision
— Noun
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～ an imaginary straight line along which an observer looks
lignum vitae
— Noun
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～ hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
lignum vitae
— Noun
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～ small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal resin