| laticiferous | <botany> Containing the latex; applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found. Origin: L. Latex, laticis, a liquid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| latifolious | <botany> Having broad leaves. Origin: L. Latifolius; latus broad + folium leaf: cf. F. Latifolie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| latin | 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. 2. The language of the ancient Romans. 3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. 4. A member of the Roman Catholic Church. (<xe see: Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had become a dead language for the people. Law Latin, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in statutes and legal instruments; often barbarous. 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. 2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. Latin Church, the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church. Latin cross. Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, especially. The French, Spanish, and Italians, who speak languages principally derived from Latin. Latin Union, an association of states, originally comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which, in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union. Origin: F, fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium, Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, Lateen sail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| latin america | The geographic area of latin america in general and when the specific country or countries are not indicated. It usually includes central america, south america, mexico, and the islands of the caribbean. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Latin square | A statistical design for experiments that removes from experimental error the variation from two sources that may be identified with the rows and columns of a square. The allocation of experimental treatments is such that each treatment occurs exactly once in each row and column. For example, a design for a 5 × 5 square is as follows: (05 Mar 2000) |
| latinize | 1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. 2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. "Latinised races." 3. To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England. Origin: L. Latinizare: cf. F.latiniser. To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. 2. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| latirostres | <ornithology> The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies. Origin: NL, fr. L. Latus broad + rostrum beak. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| latirostrous | <zoology> Having a broad beak. Origin: Cf. F. Latirostre. See Latirostres. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| latiseptate | With broad partitions. (09 Oct 1997) |
| latissimus dorsi | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, spinous processes of lower five or six thoracic and the lumbar vertebrae, median ridge of sacrum, and outer lip of iliac crest; insertion, with teres major into posterior lip of bicipital groove of humerus; action, adducts arm, rotates it medially, and extends it; nerve supply, thoracodorsal. Synonym: musculus latissimus dorsi, broadest muscle of back. (05 Mar 2000) |
| latisternal | <zoology> Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; said of anthropoid apes. Origin: L. Latus broad + E. Sternal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| latitude | 1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. "Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part." (Sir H. Wotton) 2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence. "In human actions there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged." (Jer. Taylor) 3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc. "No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles, in the latitude of monkish relations." (Fuller) 4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope. "I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude." (Locke) 5. <geography> Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian. 6. <astronomy> The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic. Ascending latitude, Circle of latitude, Geographical latitude, etc. See Ascending. Circle, etc. High latitude, that part of the earth's surface near either pole, especially. That part within either the arctic or the antarctic circle. Low latitude, that part of the earth's surface which is near the equator. Origin: F. Latitude, L. Latitudo, fr. Latus broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. Akin to E. Strew. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| latitude film | Film that does not show large contrast differences with differences in exposure; the slope of the H and D curve is low. Synonym: latitude film. (05 Mar 2000) |
| latitudinarian | 1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits. 2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. "Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects." (Allibone) 3. Lax in moral or religious principles. Origin: Cf. F. Latitudinaire. 1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. 2. A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II, who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. "They were called "men of latitude;" and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians." (Bp. Burnet) 3. One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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Latin American: a resident of Latin America an artificial language based on words common to the Romance languages Hispanic: related to a Spanish-speaking people or culture; "the Hispanic population of California is growing rapidly"
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the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself freedom from normal restraints in conduct; "the new freedom in movies and novels"; "allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money" scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
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In the United States, Latino refers to non-Anglo-American citizens who are living in the United States of America and are of Hispanic background. The feminine form of the word is Latina. "Latino" is a shortened form of the Spanish word for a Latin American individual, "latinoamericano. ...
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one of many imaginary lines parallel to the Equator and measured in degrees; the Equator is 0???a latitude and either pole is 90???a latitude; the degree of latitude of an area indicates how far north or south it is and thus the climatic conditions as well as the types of plants and animals that might be expected there
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Latitude is the angular distance north or south of the equator of a celestial object. LAVA Lava is molten rock. It usually comes out of erupting volcanoes.
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| lati | type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth |
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| lati | fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa |
| lati | extinct except for the coelacanth |
| lati | any dialect of the language of ancient Rome |
| lati | having or resembling the psychology or temper characteristic of people of Latin America |
| lati | of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language |
| lati | of or relating to the ancient region of Latium |
| lati | relating to languages derived from Latin |
| lati | relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages |
| lati | the parts of North and South America south of the United States where Romance languages (Spanish and Portuguese) are spoken |
| lati | a resident of Latin America |
| lati | a cross with the lowest arm being longer than the others |
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