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lact-, lacte, lacti, lacto Latin milk<br />

lactago herb <strong>with</strong> milky juice.<br />

lactarius yielding a milk-like sap.<br />

lactatus milky<br />

lactescens yielding a milk-like sap(?)<br />

lacteus milky-white, <strong>with</strong> a slight bluish tinge, milk-like, milky.<br />

lacticolor, lacticolorus milk-colored, milk-white.<br />

lactiferus, lactifera milk-bearing, yielding a milk-like sap.<br />

lactiflorus -a -um lactiflor'us (lak-ti-FLOR-us) <strong>with</strong> milky-colored flowers<br />

lactis, lactism Greek kick, trample<br />

lactuc-, lactuca Latin lettuce<br />

Lactuca Lactu'ca (lak-TOO-ka) lettuce, from Latin lactūca, a name used by Pliny, ..., et ideo lactucis nomen a<br />

lacte, Pliny describes lettuces, their seeds and planting, from lac, lactis, milk, a reference to its abundant milky<br />

juice, milky sap. Lactis is contracted from Greek γαλαχτος, galachtos. Related to garden lettuce, from Middle<br />

English letuse, from Old French laitues, plural of laitue, also related to galaxy, ie the Milky Way. No etymology in<br />

the protologue. (Compositae)<br />

lacun-, lacuna Latin a basin, lake; a space, cavity<br />

lacunosus -a -um lacuno'sus (lak-oo-NO-sus) <strong>with</strong> holes or pits, perforated <strong>with</strong> holes, covered <strong>with</strong> recesses.<br />

lacustr-, lacuster, lacustris New Latin of a lake, referring to a lake, living in ponds or lakes, from Latin<br />

lacuster, a lake margin, from lacus, lake, or from lacus, lake and and -stris, from -ester, adjective suffix for<br />

nouns denoting origin, place of growth, or habitat. For C. lacustris a reference to growing in glacial lake<br />

plains.<br />

ladakhianus from Ladakh in northern India<br />

ladanifer, ladaniferus, ladanifera ladan'ifer (la-DAN-i-fer) ladanum-bearing, bearing a medicinal resin (or<br />

resinous gum) called ladanum, a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes<br />

especially as a fixative.<br />

ladanum Medieval Latin lapdanum, from Latin ladanum, ledanum, from Greek ladanon, lēdanon, from<br />

lēdon rockrose, of Semitic origin. Also spelled labdanum.<br />

laelaps Greek a hurricane<br />

laem, laemo, laemus Greek the throat, gullet<br />

laemarg, laemargo Greek greedy<br />

laen, laena, -laena Latin a cloak<br />

Laënnecia Laenne'cia (len-EE-see-a) for René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781–1826), French physician,<br />

inventor of the stethoscope.<br />

laeo Greek the left-hand side<br />

laet- Latin adjective happy, cheerful, joyful, glad, pleasing<br />

laetam-, laetamen, laetamin Latin dung<br />

laetiflorus -a -um bright- or pleasing-flowered, <strong>with</strong> bright flowers, from Latin laetus -a -um, and flos, floris,<br />

flower.<br />

laetevirens, laete-virens light or vivid green, bright-green.<br />

-laetma, laetmato Greek the depths of the sea<br />

laetus -a -um lae'tus (LEE-tum) vivid, bright; glad, of pleasing appearance.<br />

laev-, laeve, laevi, laevo Latin smooth; nimble, light; to the left<br />

laevi- from levis, smooth<br />

laevicaulis -is -e laevicau'lis (lee-vi-KAW-lis) smooth-stemmed, <strong>with</strong> a smooth stalk (not rough), from , and<br />

Latin caulis, caulis, a stem, a stalk, from Greek καυλος, kaulos, stem, stalk.<br />

laeviconicus -a -um Latin laevis, smooth, free from hairs or roughness, and conus, a cone, and -icus<br />

emphasising a characteristic<br />

laeviculmis smooth stem<br />

laevigat- Latin smooth, slippery<br />

laevigatus -a -um laeviga'tum (lee-vi-GAY-tum) smooth, slippery, free from hairs or roughness.<br />

laevipes smooth-footed, <strong>with</strong> a smooth stalk (not rough).<br />

laevis -is -e lae'vis (LEE-vis, classically LIE-vis, colloquially LAY-vis) smooth (as in not being rough), or<br />

beardless and delicate, soft.<br />

laeviusculus smoothish<br />

laevivaginata Latin laevis, smooth, and vagina, sheath, for the glabrous sheaths

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