| luce | <marine biology> A pike when full grown. Origin: OF. Lus, L. Lucius a kind of fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| lucensomycin | <chemical> Antifungal antibiotic isolated from cultures of streptomyces lucensis. Pharmacological action: antibiotics, antifungal, antibiotics, macrolide. Chemical name: Lucensomycin (12 Dec 1998) |
| lucent | Bright; clear; translucent. Origin: L. Lucere, to shine (05 Mar 2000) |
| lucern | 1. A sort of hunting dog; perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. "My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine." (Chapman) 2. An animal whose fur was formerly much in reqest (by some supposed to be the lynx). Alternative forms: lusern and luzern] "The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase." (Beau. & Fl) Origin: Etymology uncertain. <botany> A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder. Synonym: alfalfa. Alternative forms: lucerne. Origin: F. Luzerne. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lucernal | Of or pertaining to a lamp. Lucernal microscope, a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it. Origin: L. Lucerna a lamp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lucernaria | <zoology> A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel. Origin: NL, fr. L. Lucerna a lamp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lucernarian | <zoology> Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida. One of the Lucernarida. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lucernarida | <zoology> A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; called also Calycozoa. A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora. Origin: NL. See Lucernaria. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lucerne | <botany> See Lucern, the plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flower-de-luce | <botany> A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colours, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north temperate zone. Some of the best known are Iris Germanica, I. Florentina, I. Persica, I. Sambucina, and the American I. Versicolour, I. Prismatica, etc. Origin: Corrupted fr. Fleur-de-lis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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