| 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) |
| Lucibacterium | A genus of aerobic to facultatively anaerobic, motile, peritrichous bacteria containing Gram-negative rods. Their metabolism is fermentative, and they are usually luminescent. They occur on the surface of dead fish and in sea water. The type species is Lucibacterium harveyi. Origin: L. Luceo, to shine, + bacterium Lucibacterium harveyi, a species of luminescent bacteria found in sea water; it is the type species of the genus Lucibacterium. Synonym: Photobacterium harveyi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lucid | Clear, not obscured or confused, as in a lucid moment or lucid spoken expression. Origin: L. Lucidus, clear (05 Mar 2000) |
| lucid interval | In psychoses or delirium, a rational period appearing in the course of the mental disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lucidification | Synonym: clarification. Origin: L. Lucidus, clear, + facio, to make (05 Mar 2000) |
| lucidity | The quality or state of being lucid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lucifer | 1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations !" (Is. Xiv. 12) "Tertullian and Gregory the Great understood this passage of Isaiah in reference to the fall of Satan; in consequence of which the name Lucifer has since been applied to, Satan." (Kitto) 2. Hence, Satan. "How wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! . . . When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again." (Shak) 3. A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco. 4. <zoology> A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. Origin: L, bringing light, the morning star, fr. Lux, lucis, light + ferre to bring. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |